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FigurativeFiguratively
figurativeness
Figure
Figure caster
figure eight
Figure flinger
Figure flinging
figure in
figure loom
figure of eight
figure of merit
figure on
figure out
Figure painting
figure skate
figure skater
figure skating
figure stone
figure up
Figure weaving
Figure-caster
figure-hugging
figure-of-eight
Figure-of-eight knot
Figure-stone
Figured
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: trope, figure of speech, figure, image]
Merriam Webster's
Date: 1751 a form of expression (as a simile or metaphor) used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(figures of speech) A figure of speech is an expression or word that is used with a metaphorical rather than a literal meaning. Of course I'm not. It was just a figure of speech. N-COUNT
Moby Thesaurus
adornment, alliteration, allusion, anacoluthon, anadiplosis, analogy, anaphora, anastrophe, antiphrasis, antithesis, antonomasia, apophasis, aporia, aposiopesis, apostrophe, beauties, catachresis, chiasmus, circumlocution, climax, colors, colors of rhetoric, conversion, ecphonesis, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exclamation, figure, fine writing, floridity, floridness, flourish, floweriness, flowers of speech, frill, gemination, hypallage, hyperbaton, hyperbole, inversion, irony, litotes, lushness, luxuriance, malapropism, meiosis, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, ornamentation, oxymoron, paregmenon, parenthesis, periphrasis, personification, pleonasm, preterition, prolepsis, purple patches, regression, repetition, sarcasm, simile, similitude, spoonerism, syllepsis, symploce, synecdoche, zeugma
