figurative

figurative

adjective

Definition of FIGURATIVE

expressing one thing in terms normally used for another <the figurative use of “allergy” to mean “a feeling of dislike”>

Synonyms extended, figural, metaphoric (or metaphorical), tropical, tropological

Related Words Aesopian (also Aesopic), allegorical, emblematic (also emblematical), symbolic (also symbolical); catachrestic (or catachrestical), sylleptic; euphemistic; nonliteral, veritable

Near Antonyms literal; nonsymbolic

Antonyms nonfigurative, nonmetaphorical