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French and English Translation Search Results for figurative

Summary

French to English: more detail...

figurative:
- Wiktionary:
  figurative → figurative
- Synonyms for "figurative":
  pictographique; réaliste

English to French: more detail...

figurative:
- au sens figuré; symbolique; symboliquement; au figuré; figuré; improprement; figuratif
Wiktionary:
- figurative → figuratif, figuré
- figurative → figuré, sens figuré
- figurative → figuratif, figurative

French

Detailed Translations for figurative from French to English

figurative:

Synonyms for "figurative":

pictographique; réaliste

Wiktionary Translations for figurative:

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• figurative	→ figurative	↔ figurativ — veraltend: in Bezug auf Wortbedeutungen: übertragen, figürlich, im übertragenen Sinn

English

Detailed Translations for figurative from English to French

figurative:

figurative adj

figurative (metaphorical)
au sens figuré; symbolique; symboliquement; au figuré
- au sens figuré adj
- symbolique adj
- symboliquement adj
- au figuré adj
figurative
figuré; improprement
- figuré adj
- improprement adj
figurative
figuratif
- figuratif adj

Translation Matrix for figurative:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	figural; nonliteral
Modifier	Related Translations	Other Translations
au figuré	figurative; metaphorical
au sens figuré	figurative; metaphorical
figuratif	figurative
figuré	figurative	characteristic; illustrative; proposed; typical
improprement	figurative
symbolique	figurative; metaphorical
symboliquement	figurative; metaphorical	symbolic

Related Words for "figurative":

figuratively

Synonyms for "figurative":

nonliteral; analogical; extended; metaphorical; metaphoric; metonymic; metonymical; poetic; synecdochic; synecdochical; tropical; rhetorical
figural; representational

Antonyms for "figurative":

literal

Related Definitions for "figurative":

(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech¹
- figurative language¹
consisting of or forming human or animal figures¹
- the figurative art of the humanistic tradition¹

Wiktionary Translations for figurative:

figurative

adjective

metaphorical; not literal
- figurative → figuratif; figuré

figurative

noun

sens métaphorique.
- figuré → figurative
Signification non littérale
- sens figuré → figurative

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• figurative	→ figuratif	↔ figuratief — kunst\|nld met beelden werkend of daaruit bestaand
• figurative	→ figuratif	↔ bildlich — durch ein Bild veranschaulicht
• figurative	→ figuratif; figurative	↔ figurativ — veraltend: in Bezug auf Wortbedeutungen: übertragen, figürlich, im übertragenen Sinn

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