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

The envious man and his wife alleged that his discourse was not figurative enough, and that he did not make the rocks and mountains dance with sufficient agility.

From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by

And "grave" is used in the literal, not figurative, sense of the word.

From Woman Her Sex and Love Life by Robinson, William J.