figurative

  • (a) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
    • figurative language
    nonliteral,
  • (s) consisting of or forming human or animal figures
    • a figural design
    • "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"- Herbert Read
    figural,

Synonyms

nonliteral figural

Antonyms

literal

See also

rhetorical

Words of close approximity

figuration
figuratively