figurative

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Adjective figurative has 2 senses

figurative, nonliteral - (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech; "figurative language"
Antonyms: literal, denotative, explicit
figural, figurative - consisting of or forming human or animal figures; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
Antonym: nonrepresentational (indirect, via representational)

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