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figurative

[fig-yer-uh-tiv] / ˈfɪg jər ə tɪv /


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Figurative designs: Block printing also encompasses figurative designs, which depict human figures engaged in various activities.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 24, 2023

Figurative language: language that suggests special meanings or effects.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Figurative sculpture lets us contemplate the human form without consequences.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2019

Just a few still lifes feature in “Three Figurative Painters,” in the atrium of the U.S.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2019

But to call Virtue it self Eternal, can not be done without a strangely Figurative Way of Speaking.

From An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War by Mandeville, Bernard




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