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adj. - Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature.

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Usage examples (21)
  • Adjective : a figurative expression. ,His remark was a figurative boomerang. ,Elizabethan poetry is highly figurative
  • By then "I knew for sure I would never be a famous artist as long as the non-figurative was in vogue."
  • But now I point you to Stephen saying about his haptics which, to me, are abstract in the sense of being non-figurative:
  • With their measured rhythmic pacing and self-contained, entirely non-figurative imagery, these films seem to invite a wholly different experience of viewing.
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