not figurative
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But the recent work is in a different style, and most of it is not figurative.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2016
“He wanted to imbue his art with an ‘object quality,’ neither abstract not figurative, the thing in itself.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2015
Literal, lit′ėr-al, adj. according to the letter: plain: not figurative or metaphorical: following the letter or exact meaning, word for word.—v.t.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
But the judicial precepts given to other peoples were not figurative, but stated what had to be done.
From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas
In the tropics, it is not figurative language, but fact, to say that, the red sun seemed to leap from behind the clear horizon.
From Annie o' the Banks o' Dee by Gordon Stables
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