nonmetaphorical

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nonmetaphorical
Adjective
  • Lee Ungno has great facility with ink, for example, but executing the densely interwoven vines of a wisteria, frequently a symbol of longevity, to resemble a thoroughly nonfigurative Jackson Pollock drip-painting seems dismissive in a perhaps unintentionally jokey way.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Back then, Pop Art—of which Oldenburg’s work was a kind of rough version—was puzzling, if not a bit scandalous to an art world that had, only recently, barely gotten used to the nonfigurative paint pyrotechnics of Abstract Expressionism.
    Peter Plagens, WSJ, 22 July 2022
Adjective
  • Then, there’s easily a dozen or more items like plants, minerals, and literal trash that can be found on runs, mined from beating bosses, or farmed in the Crossroads.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Alice Law and Peter Murdoch, who go through literal Hell to save their professor.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Nonmetaphorical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonmetaphorical. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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