Figured vs Figurative - What's the difference?
figured | figurative |
(figure)
(lb) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
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Adorned with a figure or figures.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p.446:
*:Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.
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
* Hooker
* J. A. Symonds
As adjectives the difference between figured and figurative
is that figured is (lb) having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section 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".As a verb figured
is (figure).figured
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(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.
