Crossword-Solution: FIGURATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Figurative | a. | Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative. |
| Figurative | a. | Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions. |
| Figurative | a. | Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description. |
| Figurative | a. | Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “FIGURATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Metaphorical | 1 answer |
| Emblematic | 4 answers |
| ALLUSIVE | 10 answers |
| idiomatic | 11 answers |
| Highfalutin | 25 answers |
| oratorical | 28 answers |
| Exemplary | 38 answers |
| forecasting | 38 answers |
| conjecturing | 38 answers |
| estimating | 39 answers |
| fatidic | 39 answers |
| divining | 39 answers |
| divinatory | 39 answers |
| declaring | 40 answers |
| apprehending | 40 answers |
| guessing | 40 answers |
| foretelling | 41 answers |
| augural | 42 answers |
| Tropical | 43 answers |
| Anticipating | 44 answers |
| comparative | 45 answers |
| vatic | 45 answers |
| premonitory | 45 answers |
| predictive | 47 answers |
| peremptory | 49 answers |
| predicting | 55 answers |
| Typical | 56 answers |
| cabalistic | 62 answers |
| meaningful | 63 answers |
| inspired | 64 answers |
| expressive | 65 answers |
| foreseeing | 65 answers |
| prescient | 69 answers |
| Esoteric | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEERT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FIGURATIVE (5)
But within this broad field the attendees represented a variety of formal, informal, figurative, and literal groups, with many individuals belonging to more than one.
Yes, sir, I guess there's a cold wave comin'; but you can't generally 'most always tell, as a usual thing, where the old man's concerned, and it's ONLY a guess." Walker began to feed in his breaded chop with the same nervous excitement with which he abandoned himself to the slangy and figurative excesses of his talks.
They are chiefly used in a figurative sense and may be distinguished by a reference to their etymology.
Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.
The dancer was cut or scarified on the chest, sufficient to draw blood and cause pain, the natural accompaniments of his figurative death.
Quotes with FIGURATIVE (3)
I explained my opinion of the ship’s logic. “That is a strange designation,” said the ship. “While I have certain organic elements incorporated into my substructure and decentralized DNA computing components, I am not — in the strictest sense of the term — a biological organism. I have no digestive system. No need for elimination, other than the occasional waste gas and passenger effluvium. Therefore, I have no anus in either real or figurative terms. Therefore, I hardly beli…
[Y]ou were too alert to the figurative possibilities of words not to see the phrase [angle of repose] as descriptive of human as well as detrital rest. As you said, it was too good for mere dirt; you tried to apply it to your own wandering and uneasy life ... I wonder if you ever reached it.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1974–1984).