Definitions of nonliteral
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(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
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synonyms:
figurative
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analogical
expressing, composed of, or based on an analogy
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extended
beyond the literal or primary sense
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metaphoric, metaphorical
expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another
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metonymic, metonymical
using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated
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poetic
characterized by romantic imagery
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synecdochic, synecdochical
using the name of a part for that of the whole or the whole for the part; or the special for the general or the general for the special; or the material for the thing made of it
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tropical
characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense
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rhetorical
given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought
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Antonyms:
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literal
limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text
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exact
marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact
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denotative, explicit
in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
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unrhetorical
not rhetorical
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analogical
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