Words similar to figurative

Example sentences for: figurative

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Yet, apart from such figurative and poetic language, Icelandic seems not to confuse lids and lashes.
For that matter, the word junkie itself was even adopted into the French “in” slang of the eighties-- le français branché -- along with the less common addict , more often reserved for figurative use.
Since people rarely bother to think about the meaning behind a figurative expression, anything that sounds right will foot the bill.
The illustrations are colorful (green and black, to be specific) and invariably illustrate the literal senses of idioms, which are by nature figurative: in other words, the illustration for raise the roof shows someone lifting the roof off a house.
Although Grille (in Grillen im Kopf haben) means, quite correctly, cricket in its first and literal meaning, and strange and surprising idea in its figurative sense, it ought to be mentioned that there is a direct, traceable link between the two: Grille acquired its figurative sense in the 16th century when—at least in Germany—the superstition prevailed that the demons of illness appeared in the guise of an insect.