Ornamental vs Figurative - What's the difference?
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Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
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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Ornamental is a related term of figurative.
As adjectives the difference between ornamental and figurative
is that ornamental is serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing 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 ornamental
is an ornamental plant.ornamental
English
(wikipedia ornamental)Adjective
(en adjective)- Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles.
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.