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

figurativeadjective (LANGUAGE)


(written abbreviationfig.)
(of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but with a more imaginative meaning, in order to create a special effect: (词或短语)比喻的
Of course, she was using the term "massacre" in the figurative sense.当然,她是在用“屠杀”这个词的比喻义。
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literal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Figurative use of language
allegorically
allusion
anthropomorphic
anthropomorphize
double meaning
fig
figuratively
figure of speech
idiom
ironist
metaphorical
mixed metaphor
non-literal
non-metaphorical
so to speakidiom
speak
symbol
trope
unironic
unironically

figurativeadjective (ART)


(of a painting, drawing, etc.) representing something as it really looks, rather than in an abstract way(油画、素描等)形象的,具象的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Art history & artistic movements
abstract
abstract expressionism
aesthetic
anti-modern
anti-modernism
cubism
cubist
expressionism
expressionist
expressionistic
modernism
modernist
montage
naturalism
naturalistic
regency
rococo
romantic
romanticism
screen printing

figurative | American Dictionary


figurative
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈfɪɡ·jər·ə·t̬ɪv/(abbreviationfig.)
English
(of words and phrases) used not with their basic meaning but to suggest part of that meaning:
literal and figurative meanings
art
Figurative art is based on the shapes of real objects.

figuratively


adverbus/ˈfɪɡ·jər·ə·t̬ɪv·li/
Figuratively speaking, negotiators succeeded in building a bridge over a wide river in reaching this agreement.

Examples of figurative


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