1. (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
   - figurative

See also: analogical, extended, metaphoric, metaphorical, metonymic, metonymical, poetic, rhetorical, synecdochic, synecdochical, tropical

• desirable
• desirableness
• desirably
• desire
• desire to know
• desired
• desirous
• desist
• desistance
• desk
• desk clerk
• desk dictionary
• desk officer
• desk phone
• desk sergeant
• deskbound
• deskill
• deskman
• desktop
• desktop computer
• desktop publishing
• Desmanthus
• Desmanthus ilinoensis
• desmid
• Desmidiaceae