单词	figuratively
释义	figuratively /ˈfɪɡ(ə)rətɪvli / adverb 1Used to indicate a departure from a literal use of words; metaphorically: we left a lot of people literally and figuratively in the dark [sentence adverb]: I did bump into—figuratively speaking—quite a few interesting people... His film nails the primal horror of not knowing what's beneath the surface—literally and figuratively. The curators have figuratively thrown open the doors to the tomb, let in the light, and shaken out clouds of ancient dust. After half an hour in a cubicle, I'm ready to climb the walls (figuratively), but it takes days of working up on the scaffold before things grow tiresome. 2In a style representing forms that are recognizably derived from life: Chinese art influenced her to paint figuratively... I liked moving the paint around, and I painted figuratively as an undergraduate student. Here we are cajoled into reading adjacent daubs figuratively, as melting body parts or mutant landscapes. Although there has been some buzz of late about young abstract painters in Los Angeles, much of the truly innovative new work has been figuratively based.
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