Synonyms of figurative

figurative

adjective

ˈfi-g(y)ə-rə-tiv 

as in metaphorical

expressing one thing in terms normally used for another

the figurative use of "allergy" to mean "a feeling of dislike"

Synonyms & Similar Words

• metaphorical
• metaphoric
• figural
• symbolic
• symbolical
• tropological
• tropical
• emblematical
• allegorical
• extended
• emblematic
• Aesopic
• euphemistic
• nonliteral
• veritable
• Aesopian
• catachrestical
• catachrestic
• sylleptic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• literal
• nonfigurative
• nonmetaphorical
• nonsymbolic

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of figurative

With the wave of a figurative white flag, could gentle parenting be moving to the fringes of the parenting zeitgeist alongside helicopter and snowplow parenting — philosophies that encouraged parents to hover over their child and remove all obstacles from their path? —Lynda Lin Grigsby, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2024

Later, self-consciously naturalistic painters would work hard to resolve these kinds of tensions, which run through figurative art and Christianity both. —Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2024

Our Maurice salads, literal and figurative, are killing us. —Elissa Robinson, Detroit Free Press, 2 Dec. 2024

Staub Cast-Iron Wide Oval Cocotte $350 $230 Food52 The only thing more covetable than a regular Staub cocotte is a black cast-iron one (which is extremely metal, in a literal and figurative sense). —Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 29 Nov. 2024