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

They found themselves up against a stone wall, a veritable, and not figurative one.

From The Motor Girls at Camp Surprise The Cave in the Mountains by Penrose, Margaret

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

That cross and that reproach were not figurative.

From The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by Anonymous