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单词 figurative
释义
figurative
adjective
uk
/ˈfɪɡ.ər.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈfɪɡ.jɚ.ə.tɪv/

figurativeadjective(LANGUAGE)

(written abbreviationfig.)
(of words andphrases) used not withtheirbasicmeaningbut with a moreimaginativemeaning, inordertocreateaspecialeffect:
（词或短语）比喻的
Ofcourse, she was using theterm"massacre" in the figurativesense.当然，她是在用“屠杀”这个词的比喻义。
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Figurative use of language
  • a metaphor forsomethingidiom
  • allegorically
  • allusion
  • anthropomorphic
  • anthropomorphize
  • figure of speech
  • idiom
  • ironic
  • metaphor
  • metaphorically
  • metonymy
  • mix
  • mixyourmetaphorsidiom
  • mixed metaphor
  • non-metaphorical
  • pathetic fallacy
  • so to speakidiom
  • speak
  • symbol
  • trope
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figurativeadjective(ART)

(of apainting,drawing, etc.)representingsomething as it reallylooks,ratherthan in anabstractway
（油画、素描等）形象的，具象的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Art history & artistic movements
  • abstract
  • aesthetic
  • anti-modern
  • anti-modernism
  • anti-modernist
  • cubist
  • expressionism
  • expressionist
  • expressionistic
  • expressionistically
  • modernist
  • montage
  • naturalism
  • naturalistic
  • non-abstract
  • rococo
  • romantic
  • romanticism
  • screen printing
  • silkscreen
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(Definition offigurativefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

figurative| American Dictionary

figurative
adjective[not gradable]
us
/ˈfɪɡ·jər·ə·t̬ɪv/
(abbreviationfig.)
English
(of words andphrases) used not withtheirbasicmeaningbut tosuggestpartof thatmeaning:
literaland figurativemeanings
art
Figurativeartisbasedon theshapesofrealobjects.

figuratively

adverbus
/ˈfɪɡ·jər·ə·t̬ɪv·li/
Figurativelyspeaking,negotiatorssucceededinbuildingabridgeover awideriverinreachingthisagreement.
(Definition offigurativefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffigurative

figurative
But in this instance, the allusion is purelyfigurative.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The transgressions that representation licenses are predicated on the representational - that is,figurative- nature of those transgressions.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Casting asidefigurativepainting, the visual artists tended to embrace installation art and irony.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These could well be useful to researchers interested infigurativelanguage.
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However, thefigurative, or programmatic, music of the previous century tried to bring into the concert all stylised birds, storms and galloping horses.
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Thus, the traditional view cannot account for the fact that context actually facilitates initial comprehension offigurativelanguage.
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This forms the basis of the radius of creativity - afigurativespace demonstrating the range of the likely creative possibles of an individual agent.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The kind of topic transition with which the production of afigurativeexpression is associated in our corpus occurs in 4:27-33.
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Just what that organized practice, and what activitiesfigurativeexpressions may be employed to perform in conversation, is the focus of this inquiry.
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Recipients' minimal agreements in response to thefigurativesummaries (sympathy tokens, etc.) conjoin those substantive and procedural agreements.
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To those who supported the ideals of state socialism and who worked infigurativestyles this was not a problem.
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Constituting a new nation and defining its culture meant, among other things, mapping itsfigurativegeography, delineating the nation's boundaries.
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Beyond this, we can ask whatfigurativesculpture gave abstract architects, and why they used it.
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One is the focus on thefigurativecontent of landscape art in relation to wider cultural discourses.
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The next three chapters are concerned with various forms offigurativelanguage including metaphors and similes, idioms, and proverbs.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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