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What is the adjective for figures?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb figure which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

figural
  1. Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
  2. Figurative, not literal.
  3. (mathematics) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
  4. (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.
  5. (rare) Pertaining to (human) figures.
  6. (music) Figurate.
  7. Synonyms:
      8. figurative, metaphorical, tropical, tropological, extended, metaphoric, symbolic, emblematic, allegorical, representative, illustrative, parabolic, emblematical, symbolical, imaginative, fanciful, denotative, abstract, descriptive, nonliteral, non-literal, not literal, suggestive, characteristic, indicative, connotative, representational, exemplary, demonstrative, typical, evocative, symptomatic, allusive, mnemonic, analogous, symbolizing, symbolising, allegoric, fictional, mystical, paradigmatic, expressive, adumbrative, delineative, depictive, exhibitive, evincive, reflective, indicatory, denotive … more
  8. Examples:
      9. “The Doric entablature the herms carry on their hairy heads provided Sansovino with metopes that he could fill with figural sculpture.”
      “This palace had underground rooms or grottoes with wall paintings depicting elaborately swirled and bizarre floral and figural motifs.”
      “The recumbent figure, whose sexual ambiguity is iconographically unique, is one of several figural types conveying the myth of Hermaphroditus.”
figurative
  1. 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".
  2. Metaphorically so called
  3. With many figures of speech
  4. Emblematic; representative
  5. Synonyms:
      6. symbolic, metaphorical, emblematic, allegorical, representative, tropical, figural, tropological, illustrative, parabolic, emblematical, extended, symbolical, imaginative, metaphoric, denotative, fanciful, abstract, descriptive, nonliteral, non-literal, not literal, symbolizing, suggestive, characteristic, representational, typical, symbolising, allusive, connotative, analogous, evocative, mnemonic, exemplary, depictive, mimetic, allegoric, mystical, fictional, indicative, symptomatic, indicatory, significant, token, demonstrative, paradigmatic, expressive, adumbrative, delineative, exhibitive … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The group working on a monument to Dr. Seuss had originally wanted to design a monument that featured a figurative depiction of the Cat in the Hat.”
      “On the next wall, there is a clutch of figurative drawings from the early 1990s, some beautifully conceived and others unwieldy and amateurish.”
      “A true Renaissance man, Beck has risen to international acclaim for his sculpture, as well as his abstract and figurative paintings.”
figured
  1. (of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
  2. Adorned with a figure or figures.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. patterned, decorated, adorned, marked, embellished, ornamented, variegated, decorative, fancy, tessellated, intricate, mosaic, goffered, trimmed, floral, flowery, psychedelic, paisley, moiré, watered, crimped … more
figuresome
  1. Characterised as possessing an attractive figure or shape
figurial
  1. Represented by figure or delineation.
figureless
  1. Without a figure or figures (in various senses).
  2. Examples:
      3. “She dressed, pulling on the plain white tunic and figureless brown trousers.”
      “She saw herself as a ten-year-old, as skinny and figureless as a stick, with a mop of unruly dark curls atop her head.”
      “The floor has been darkened and Rotman's figureless photographs are lit from behind.”
figurate
  1. Forming a figure.
  2. Examples:
      3. “That added value is frequently used in the Old Testatent to modify the original meaning of some terms, granting them, this way, a figurate sense.”
      “About 50 paintings comprising, landscape and heritage, culture, figurate art in the exhibition highlighted and depicted the beauty and splendor.”
      “Contemporary and figurate work by Peter Chan and Steve Galloway.”
figuring
  1. present participle of figure
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling, believing, thinking, holding, maintaining, deeming, considering, judging, assuming, holding that, viewing, concluding, reckoning, adjudging, assessing, considering it right, esteeming, estimating, expecting, regarding, adjudicating, coming to the conclusion that, opining, guessing, supposing, conjecturing, surmising, imagining, gathering, deducing, presuming, suspecting, conceiving, inferring, understanding, speculating, reasoning, fancying, presupposing, divining, determining, theorizing, hypothesizing, calculating, postulating, daring say, theorising, evaluating, gauging, hypothesising … more
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