Figurative vs Grandiloquent - What's the difference?
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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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given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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Figurative is a related term of grandiloquent.
As adjectives the difference between figurative and grandiloquent
is that 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" while grandiloquent is given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid.figurative
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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.
