figurativeadj.

/ˈfɪɡjʊərətɪv/

Forms: Also Middle English figuratif, Middle English–1500s fygurative, fyguratyf, fyguratyve.

Etymology: < French figuratif, -ive, < late Latin figūrātīvus , < figūrāre to figure v.

1. Representing by a figure or emblem; emblematical, typical.

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society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [adjective]

figurative1398

characteristical1591

typic1610

typical1612

characterical?c1622

characteristic1647

umbratile1665

typeful1889

typal1893

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xxvii. 217 Dremes ben somtyme wrappyd in fyguratyf mystyk.

?1504 M. Beaufort tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iv. xi. sig. bvi This royall soup, in the whyche thou hast nat purposed to be eten the fyguratyue lambe.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xv. 25 This they will say was figuratiue and serued..but for a time.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 174 The Nails were made..for a figurative token.

1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 22 They were a part of the divinely appointed constitution of the Jewish church, and had passed away with the rest of its figurative and mystic ceremonial.

a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pictorial or plastic representation.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective]

figurative1607

figural1813

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 199 Serpents..in whose heads are many pretious stones, with such naturall seales or figuratiue impressions, as if they were framed by the hande of man.

1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iv. 92 This is the representative or figurative writing, which forms the lowest stage of hieroglyphics.

1889 J. Hirst in Archæol. Inst. Jrnl. No. 181. 34 Transmission of both geometric as well as animal and figurative decorated forms from East to West.

b. Of a style of the visual arts; esp. applied to painting in which the forms are recognizably derived from objective sources without necessarily being clearly representational; figurative painter: one who paints in this style.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles

plangent1666

dry1695

sticky1753

flat1755

spotty1798

touchy1809

definitive1815

edgy1825

painty1827

scratchy1827

unideal1838

tinglish1855

generalist1858

tinny1877

Christmas-cardy1883

tinty1883

surfacy1887

chocolate box1892

chocolate-boxy1894

Christmas card1895

juicy1897

candy box1898

pastose1901

busy1909

pompier1914

posterish1914

painterly1932

X-ray1940

illusional1942

all-over1948

figurative1960

hard-edge1961

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles > painters

machinist1820

attitudinizer1824

nebulist1836

pompier1915

figurative painter1960

1960 Guardian 2 Feb. 7/4 ‘Figurative’ is a comparatively new word in the critical vocabulary of contemporary art. It implies a kind of painting that is not abstract and..not necessarily representational.

1962 Listener 19 July 93/1 There is a new interest in figurative painting today.

1962 Listener 19 July 94/1 The work of three figurative painters who have recently shown in London: Francis Bacon, Sidney Nolan, and Arthur Boyd.

1962 Listener 19 July 94/2 In their use of chance in the act of painting figurative painters today undoubtedly owe much to abstract expressionism.

†3. Pertaining to the use of graphic symbols. figurative arithmetic n. algebra. Also, Of the nature of a symbolic diagram. Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun]

algebra1551

almacabala1570

Rule of Coss1570

analytics1656

universal mathematics1673

figurative arithmetic1690

universal arithmetic1720

characteristic equation1857

society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [adjective] > diagram

figurative1800

diagramic1839

diagrammatic1853

schematic1856

diagrammatical1880

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 335 Division is done in Figurative Arithmetick..by applying some Line of Separation between the Dividend and the Divisor.

1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 13 Let us still exhibit a figurative table.

a. Of speech: Based on, or involving the use of, figures or metaphors; metaphorical, not literal.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative

figurative14..

figural?a1500

translated1511

figurate1548

tropological1555

metaphorical1563

tropical1565

tropic1569

translate1582

allusory1587

translative1589

allusive1593

metaphoric1597

transumptive1597

transferent1614

translatitious1637

analogic1638

tralatitious1645

parabolic1696

tropologic1796

transitive1810

transferred1863

14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 134 Legeauns & figuratif spekynges.

?1555 M. Coverdale tr. Hope of Faythful xxvii. 181 By a figuratyue and borowed spech, he declareth the horrour..of the damned.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 The vtterance in prose..is also not so voluble..nor in fine alowed that figuratiue conueyance..as meeter is.

1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 86 A wittie checke, or a figuratiue flout.

1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 217 Customary or Figurative Syntax is that which is used in the Forms of Speech..wherein Words are put together according to a Metaphorical or borrowed Sense.

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 15 There is a figurative sense in which things are said to be in the mind.

a1832 H. J. Rose Theol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 891/1 Will it be contended that this was not figurative language?

1859 Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iii. 26 The mistake of confounding a figurative expression with a literal one.

b. Metaphorically so called.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorically so called

figurative14..

analogicala1638

14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 118 The figuratif body of Chryste þat is holy chirche.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. i. iv. 6 Also Princes whom the Prophets..haue..made figuratiue Christs.

1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms v. 44 Confound real with figurative Sovereignty.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy ii He saw a real instead of a figurative blister.

5. Abounding in or addicted to figures of speech.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [adjective]

figured?a1513

figurate1530

figurative1589

schematical1679

configurative1787

troped1922

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. vii. 128 Which thing made the graue iudges Areopagites..to forbid all manner of figuratiue speaches..in their consistorie of Iustice.

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires Pref. Sublime subjects ought to be adorned with the sublimest and with the most figurative expressions.

1720 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth 90 Tho' they are..easy Authors, yet they are more Figurative than Cæsar.

1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xiv. 274 They will pour forth a torrent of Figurative Language.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. ii. 25 Shakespeare..is the most figurative writer..in our language.

1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 113 La Roque..broke bounds Of figurative passion.

†6. Music. = figurate adj. 4. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [adjective] > florid

figurate1708

figurative1744

coloured1853

florid1876

melismatic1877

figured1879

figural1938

1744 Suppl. Harris's Lex. Techn. at Counterpoint Counterpoint is divided into simple and figurative..Figurative Counterpoint is of two Kinds, in one, Discords are introduced occasionally, as passing Notes..in the other, the Discord bears a chief Part of the Harmony.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	figurative
释义	figurativeadj. /ˈfɪɡjʊərətɪv/ Forms: Also Middle English figuratif, Middle English–1500s fygurative, fyguratyf, fyguratyve. Etymology: < French figuratif, -ive, < late Latin figūrātīvus , < figūrāre to figure v. 1. Representing by a figure or emblem; emblematical, typical. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > symbolizing by a type > [adjective] figurative1398 characteristical1591 typic1610 typical1612 characterical?c1622 characteristic1647 umbratile1665 typeful1889 typal1893 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xxvii. 217 Dremes ben somtyme wrappyd in fyguratyf mystyk. ?1504 M. Beaufort tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) iv. xi. sig. bvi This royall soup, in the whyche thou hast nat purposed to be eten the fyguratyue lambe. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xv. 25 This they will say was figuratiue and serued..but for a time. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 174 The Nails were made..for a figurative token. 1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 22 They were a part of the divinely appointed constitution of the Jewish church, and had passed away with the rest of its figurative and mystic ceremonial. 2. a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, pictorial or plastic representation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] figurative1607 figural1813 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 199 Serpents..in whose heads are many pretious stones, with such naturall seales or figuratiue impressions, as if they were framed by the hande of man. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. i. iv. 92 This is the representative or figurative writing, which forms the lowest stage of hieroglyphics. 1889 J. Hirst in Archæol. Inst. Jrnl. No. 181. 34 Transmission of both geometric as well as animal and figurative decorated forms from East to West. b. Of a style of the visual arts; esp. applied to painting in which the forms are recognizably derived from objective sources without necessarily being clearly representational; figurative painter: one who paints in this style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [adjective] > other qualities or styles plangent1666 dry1695 sticky1753 flat1755 spotty1798 touchy1809 definitive1815 edgy1825 painty1827 scratchy1827 unideal1838 tinglish1855 generalist1858 tinny1877 Christmas-cardy1883 tinty1883 surfacy1887 chocolate box1892 chocolate-boxy1894 Christmas card1895 juicy1897 candy box1898 pastose1901 busy1909 pompier1914 posterish1914 painterly1932 X-ray1940 illusional1942 all-over1948 figurative1960 hard-edge1961 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > qualities or styles of painting > [noun] > other qualities or styles > painters machinist1820 attitudinizer1824 nebulist1836 pompier1915 figurative painter1960 1960 Guardian 2 Feb. 7/4 ‘Figurative’ is a comparatively new word in the critical vocabulary of contemporary art. It implies a kind of painting that is not abstract and..not necessarily representational. 1962 Listener 19 July 93/1 There is a new interest in figurative painting today. 1962 Listener 19 July 94/1 The work of three figurative painters who have recently shown in London: Francis Bacon, Sidney Nolan, and Arthur Boyd. 1962 Listener 19 July 94/2 In their use of chance in the act of painting figurative painters today undoubtedly owe much to abstract expressionism. †3. Pertaining to the use of graphic symbols. figurative arithmetic n. algebra. Also, Of the nature of a symbolic diagram. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] algebra1551 almacabala1570 Rule of Coss1570 analytics1656 universal mathematics1673 figurative arithmetic1690 universal arithmetic1720 characteristic equation1857 society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [adjective] > diagram figurative1800 diagramic1839 diagrammatic1853 schematic1856 diagrammatical1880 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 335 Division is done in Figurative Arithmetick..by applying some Line of Separation between the Dividend and the Divisor. 1800 tr. E. J. B. Bouillon-Lagrange Man. Course Chem. I. 13 Let us still exhibit a figurative table. 4. a. Of speech: Based on, or involving the use of, figures or metaphors; metaphorical, not literal. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative figurative14.. figural?a1500 translated1511 figurate1548 tropological1555 metaphorical1563 tropical1565 tropic1569 translate1582 allusory1587 translative1589 allusive1593 metaphoric1597 transumptive1597 transferent1614 translatitious1637 analogic1638 tralatitious1645 parabolic1696 tropologic1796 transitive1810 transferred1863 14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 134 Legeauns & figuratif spekynges. ?1555 M. Coverdale tr. Hope of Faythful xxvii. 181 By a figuratyue and borowed spech, he declareth the horrour..of the damned. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iv. 6 The vtterance in prose..is also not so voluble..nor in fine alowed that figuratiue conueyance..as meeter is. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 86 A wittie checke, or a figuratiue flout. 1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 217 Customary or Figurative Syntax is that which is used in the Forms of Speech..wherein Words are put together according to a Metaphorical or borrowed Sense. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers 15 There is a figurative sense in which things are said to be in the mind. a1832 H. J. Rose Theol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) II. 891/1 Will it be contended that this was not figurative language? 1859 Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iii. 26 The mistake of confounding a figurative expression with a literal one. b. Metaphorically so called. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorically so called figurative14.. analogicala1638 14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 118 The figuratif body of Chryste þat is holy chirche. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. i. iv. 6 Also Princes whom the Prophets..haue..made figuratiue Christs. 1832 G. C. Lewis Remarks Use & Abuse Polit. Terms v. 44 Confound real with figurative Sovereignty. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy ii He saw a real instead of a figurative blister. 5. Abounding in or addicted to figures of speech. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > [adjective] figured?a1513 figurate1530 figurative1589 schematical1679 configurative1787 troped1922 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. vii. 128 Which thing made the graue iudges Areopagites..to forbid all manner of figuratiue speaches..in their consistorie of Iustice. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires Pref. Sublime subjects ought to be adorned with the sublimest and with the most figurative expressions. 1720 J. Clarke Ess. Educ. Youth 90 Tho' they are..easy Authors, yet they are more Figurative than Cæsar. 1783 H. Blair Lect. Rhetoric I. xiv. 274 They will pour forth a torrent of Figurative Language. 1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. ii. 25 Shakespeare..is the most figurative writer..in our language. 1878 R. Browning Two Poets of Croisic in La Saisiaz & Two Poets of Croisic 113 La Roque..broke bounds Of figurative passion. †6. Music. = figurate adj. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > ornament > [adjective] > florid figurate1708 figurative1744 coloured1853 florid1876 melismatic1877 figured1879 figural1938 1744 Suppl. Harris's Lex. Techn. at Counterpoint Counterpoint is divided into simple and figurative..Figurative Counterpoint is of two Kinds, in one, Discords are introduced occasionally, as passing Notes..in the other, the Discord bears a chief Part of the Harmony. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1398
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