figurative expression
1figurative — figuratively, adv. figurativeness, n. /fig yeuhr euh tiv/, adj. 1. of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor; metaphorical; not literal: a figurative expression. 2. metaphorically so called: His remark was a figurative… …
2figurative — /ˈfɪgjərətɪv / (say figyuhruhtiv), /ˈfɪgə / (say figuh ) adjective 1. of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical; not literal: a figurative expression. 2. metaphorically so called: this remark was a… …
3expression — n. phrase 1) a colloquial; common; elliptical; figurative; fixed; hackneyed, trite; idiomatic; technical expression look 2) an angry; dead pan; grave, serious; happy; intense; pained; pleasant; puzzled, quizzical; vacuous expression (she had a… …
4expression — noun 1 on sb s face ADJECTIVE ▪ neutral ▪ blank, dazed, glazed, vacant ▪ They all just looked at me with blank expressions. ▪ dea …
5figurative — [[t]fɪ̱gərətɪv, AM gjər [/t]] 1) ADJ: usu ADJ n If you use a word or expression in a figurative sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one. ...an event that will change your route in both the… …
6figurative — Describes artwork representing the form of a human, an animal or a thing; any expression of one thing in terms of another thing. Abstract artwork is the opposite of figurative art in certain ways. Roy Lichtenstein made a series of images of a… …
7figurative — adj. Figurative is used with these nouns: ↑art, ↑artist, ↑expression, ↑language, ↑meaning, ↑painter, ↑painting, ↑sculpture, ↑sense, ↑usage, ↑work …
8Peinture non figurative — La peinture non figurative (ou, selon le dictionnaire Le Robert, « non figurative »[1]) est au XXe siècle l un des courants les plus importants de la nouvelle École de Paris qui se développe à la fin des années 1940, connaît son… …
9K A SOMAN — Introduction K.A.Soman (born in 1953), popularly known as Somji in Art circle, is one of the renowned artists of Kerala. According to certain noted critics, he has been called the Jackson Pollock of India but Somji denies its flattery with… …
10PHILOSOPHY, JEWISH — This article is arranged according to the following outline: WHAT IS JEWISH PHILOSOPHY? recent histories of jewish philosophy biblical and rabbinic antecedents bible rabbinic literature hellenistic jewish philosophy philo of alexandria biblical… …
