Monochrome vs Figurative - What's the difference?
monochrome | figurative |
A black and white image, especially such a photograph.
(dated) A painting executed in shades of a single colour.
A ceramic glaze of a single colour; an object so glazed.
having only one colour
(photography) representing colours with shades of gray
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 monochrome and figurative
is that monochrome is having only one colour 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 noun monochrome
is a black and white image, especially such a photograph.monochrome
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(wikipedia monochrome)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(-)figurative
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.