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not figurative

ADJECTIVE

literal

Synonyms

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accurate actual authentic true unvarnished

STRONG

close faithful gospel natural ordinary plain simple

WEAK

apparent bona fide critical genuine methodical scrupulous strict to the letter undeviating unerring unexaggerated usual veracious verbal verbatim veritable written

Antonyms

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counterfeit dishonest false falsified unreal

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abnormal complex complicated decorated different difficult embellished extraordinary inaccurate intricate ornate unclear uncommon

WEAK

exaggerated figurative imaginative loose

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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

But the precepts of faith, hope, and charity are not figurative.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

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 Stables, Gordon

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

not figurative

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