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What does figurative mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word figurative? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  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
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Lawlor's equine subjects are informed by the mythical rather than the figurative or strictly anatomical study.
Now I think it was something different, the struggle was between figurative art and abstract art.
A true Renaissance man, Beck has risen to international acclaim for his sculpture, as well as his abstract and figurative paintings.
It would make his move towards a criticism of absolute time both figurative and literal.
On the next wall, there is a clutch of figurative drawings from the early 1990s, some beautifully conceived and others unwieldy and amateurish.
It was a figurative abstract of Pare Argile holding his son as a newly born baby.

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