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In natural English speech, "figurative" appears in contexts such as: "are abutted the way things sit next to each other so really like uh a figurative painter I'm painting Rel relationships and I want people to understand the universal possibility of how relationships are put together and how they can feed that into". Listen to the exact timestamped clip in the accompanying video with synchronized subtitles.

IPA/ˈfɪɡəɹətɪv/

Syllablesfi·gu·ra·tive

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are abutted the way things sit next to each other so really like uh a

figurative painter I'm painting Rel relationships and I want people to understand the universal

possibility of how relationships are put together and how they can feed that into

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adjective

Of use as a metaphor, simile, metonym or other figure of speech, as opposed to literal; using figures.

“Into an error of this kind they have fallen, who have claimed for the proverb, and made it one of its necessary conditions, that it should be a figurative expression. A moment’s consideration will be sufficient to disprove this. How many proverbs, such as Haste makes waste;—Honesty is the best policy, with ten thousand more, have nothing figurative about them.”

Synonyms:metaphorical symbolic tropic allegorical

adjective

Metaphorically so called.

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