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Monochrome vs Figurative - What's the difference?

monochrome | figurative |

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

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • having only one colour
  • (photography) representing colours with shades of gray
  • figurative

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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".
  • * '>citation
  • Metaphorically so called
  • With many figures of speech
  • Emblematic; representative
  • * Hooker
  • 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.
  • * J. A. Symonds
  • They belonged to a nation dedicated to the figurative arts, and they wrote for a public familiar with painted form.

    Usage notes

    * Said of language, expression, etc.

    Antonyms

    * literal

    Derived terms

    * figurativeness * figuratively