Meaning | (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech. |
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Synonym | figurative |
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Narrower | analogical | Expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy / analogy |
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extended | Beyond the literal or primary sense |
metaphorical, metaphoric | Expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another |
metonymic, metonymical | Using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated |
poetic | Characterized by romantic imagery |
synecdochic, synecdochical | Using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part |
tropical | Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes |
See also | rhetorical | Given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought |
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Opposite | literal | Limited to the explicit meaning / meaning of a word or text |
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Spanish | figurado, figurativo |
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