Figurative is valid Scrabble Word

Is figurative a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
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Words with Friends YES

10 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
20 points in WWF

Definitions for FIGURATIVE in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:

representing by a figure or resemblance
departing from a literal use of words; metaphorical
(of an artist or work of art) representing forms that are recognizably derived from life.
Representing by a figure, or by resemblance; typical; representative.
Used in a sense that is tropical, as a metaphor; not literal; -- applied to words and expressions.
Abounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.
Relating to the representation of form or figure by drawing, carving, etc. See Figure, n., 2.
(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech
consisting of or forming human or animal figures

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

representing by a figure or resemblanc; emblematic; of or relating to representation of form or figure in art

Words related to FIGURATIVE

figuratively22 figurativeness21

Words that contain FIGURATIVE

figuratively22 configurative22 nonfigurative20 prefigurative22 figurativeness21 prefiguratively27 figurativenesse22 prefigurativene24 figurativenesses23 prefigurativeness26 prefigurativenesses28

How to use FIGURATIVE in a sentence

An advantage of the figurative also is that it may make meanings lucid.
But as the word was used over and over in this figurative way the imaginative flight became more and more commonplace.
Many very simple words, including several of those already treated in this chapter, are two-sided in that they are both literal and figurative.
Solomon held this house in honour, and performed within its walls some figurative and symbolical action, which I have forgotten.
Some specimens of his remarkable verbal and figurative power in conversation are forcible in the extreme.
The first concerns the form of figurative art specially adapted to the requirements of religious thought in the fourteenth century.
Lincoln was figurative in his speech, talks, and conversation.
But we are getting too figurative, and our Christmas fare, unlike ourselves, is growing cold.
Now in a figurative way this explains how we have come to take our present attitude toward the problem of drill or training in the process of education.
Great was his joy, and he said to himself that he would well like for wife one who could thus speak figurative language.

The metaphors in the Old Testament are more boldly figurative.
A will is the last place where one would use ambiguous or figurative language.
In like manner train yourself in the use of figurative language.
But this new and at first figurative use of the word, applied first to geographical and then to scientific and moral explorers, has given the word a new dignity.
It may be said that these are but figurative expressions.
Death is frequently used in a figurative sense to denote misery, and life to signify happiness.
To speak thus of the guilty, unbelieving man as dead, and only of the virtuous, believing man as truly alive, may seem at first a startling use of figurative language.
Every other doctrine of the Divine judgment is either an error or a figurative statement of this one.
A rich, spiritual, figurative style, only too rich and therefore confused, waited for the theological artist to purify, reduce and vigorously fashion.
This expression, let me hasten to add, is merely figurative.
The Greeks do not seem to have had the extravagant rage which now prevails for merely figurative language.
The days of the years of his pilgrimage were not few, and quite probably, except in a figurative sense, not evil.
Practical Reflections on the Figurative Art of Singing.
Full of imagery, it had all the magnificence, the inconsistencies, and the mobility of the figurative style.
If the comparison is imaginative rather than literal, our language becomes figurative, and usually takes the form of a simile or metaphor.
The effectiveness of a comparison, whether literal or figurative, depends upon the familiarity of the reader with one of the two things compared.
While figurative language is a change from the usual mode of expression, we are not to think of it as being unnatural.
Figurative language ranges from these very simple expressions to the beautiful figures of speech found in so much of our poetry.
Pardon me, Sir, if in the above paragraph I am too figurative.
In all this we see clearly a scarcely figurative description of the material sun and its motions.
And I observe that the chiefest Means he makes use of to render his Tragick Language at once Uncommon and Delightful, is the Figurative Way of considering Things as Persons.
He took it for some figurative form of expression, and, without making any reply, passed his hand over his forehead, as if trying to recall some idea.

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