Denotative vs Figurative - What's the difference?
denotative | figurative |
That denotes or names; designative
* (Oliver Sacks), Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deaf
Specific to the primary meaning of a term
Metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "It's raining cats and dogs".
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Metaphorically so called
With many figures of speech
Emblematic; representative
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* J. A. Symonds
As adjectives the difference between denotative and figurative
is that denotative is that denotes or names; designative while figurative is metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures; as of the use of "cats and dogs" in the phrase "it's raining cats and dogs".denotative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There was still no concept of language (arithmetical symbolism, perhaps, is not a language, is not denotative in the same sense as words).
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This, they will say, was figurative , and served, by God's appointment, but for a time, to shadow out the true glory of a more divine sanctity.
- They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.