English Dictionary

figurative

/ˈfɪɡəɹətɪv/

adj

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.

Her figurative language painted a vivid picture in my mind.

意味（1）

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig.

The lovers she seems to pursue with her figurative language in fact retreat under the barrage of similes, metaphors and fables.

意味（2）

Metaphorically so called.

意味（3）

With many figures of speech.

意味（4）

Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative

This, they will say, was figurative, and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.

意味（5）

(art) representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to abstract art.

They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.