unfigurative
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + figurative
Adjective[edit]
unfigurative (comparative more unfigurative, superlative most unfigurative)
- Not figurative; unmetaphorical; literal.
- 1848, Samuel Davidson, An Introduction to the New Testament:
- [T]he cognate passages […] would lead us to suppose that the Saviour spoke to the apostles of approaching events connected with Himself in definite expressions of an unfigurative character.