| 单词 | nonliteral |
| 释义 | nonliteral (once / 984943 pages) adj WORD FAMILY literal: literalise, literalism, literalize, literally, literalness, literals, nonliteral+/literalise: literalised, literalises, literalising/literalize: literalized USAGE EXAMPLESThe company's trademark avant-garde style, layering an elaborate technical design over a nonliteral, nonlinear approach to stage action, is strangely flattened. Los Angeles Times(Feb 05, 2016) They began to be used in nonliteral ways, and so became not just words that shocked and offended but words with which people could swear. Salon(May 11, 2013) As for metaphorical reading, nonliteral meanings are not asserted, but they do come to mind. New York Times(Nov 15, 2012) adj (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech Syn|Ant figurative analogical expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy extendedbeyond the literal or primary sense metaphoric, metaphoricalexpressing one thing in terms normally denoting another metonymic, metonymicalusing the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated poeticcharacterized by romantic imagery synecdochic, synecdochicalusing the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it tropicalcharacterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense rhetoricalgiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought literal limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text exactmarked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact denotative, explicitin accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term unrhetoricalnot rhetorical |
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