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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024fig•ur•a•tive /ˈfɪgyərətɪv/USA pronunciation adj. - Rhetoricof the nature of or involving a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor:She used the word "dead'' in a figurative sense to mean "tired.''
- Rhetoriccharacterized by or having figures of speech:[letters filled with figurative language.]
fig•ur•a•tive•ly, adv. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024fig•ur•a•tive (fig′yər ə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - Rhetoricof the nature of or involving a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor;
metaphorical;
not literal:a figurative expression. - metaphorically so called:His remark was a figurative boomerang.
- Rhetoricabounding in or fond of figures of speech:Elizabethan poetry is highly figurative.
- representing by means of a figure or likeness, as in drawing or sculpture.
- representing by a figure or emblem;
emblematic.
- Middle French
- Late Latin figūrātīvus (see figurate, -ive); replacing Middle English figuratif
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged ornate, ornamental, flowery, elaborate, florid, grandiloquent.
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