Words and phrases that have a meaning related to nonliteral: (131 results)
Antonyms:
literal
Often used in the same context:
denotative, perspicuous, adverbial, ludic, sermonic, prepositional, disjunctive, intransitive, auxiliary verb, ideographic, hieratic, midrashic, prosodic, aphoristic, aleatory, syllogistic, synesthetic, diagrammatic, phrasal, expressible, generative grammar, kinaesthetic, propositional, connotative, performative, homophonic, expressional, intransitive verb, ineloquent, subjunctive, overdetermined, genitive, elaborative, vivifying, ostensive, cadenced, phonemic, prefatory, phoneme, literal, prepositional phrase, literalized, subjunctive mood, dialogic, accusative, objective correlative, syntactical, mathematical notation, exegetical, metrical, discursive, declarative sentence, graspable, performable, reflexive pronoun, dialectical, onomatopoetic, imagistic, textual, hermeneutical, gestural, justificatory, essayistic, terminological, comprehendible, tu quoque, descriptive, synchronic, split infinitive, diachronic, incommunicable, decipherable, interpretable, attributive, unpoetic, reductive, typological, grammatical, uninflected, beethovenian, exhortatory, poetic, nabokovian, kabbalistic, echoic, pellucid, unbinding, ideational, formalistic, semiotic, notational, consubstantial, epigrammatic, aristotelian logic, pictographic, dualist, homiletic, operant, hortatory, wordier, contradictive, lexical, metaphorical, metaphoric, figurative, symbolic, univocal, symbolical, allegorical, nondiscursive, nonsymbolic, formulaic, idiomatic, monologic, allusive, analogic, analogical, declarative, euphemistic
Appears in the definition of:
figure, figure of speech, image, liberally, trope
Synonyms:
Also try:extended, metonymic, metonymical, synecdochic, synecdochical, tropical
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