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Word - rootword - affixes
dili literal - literal - dili ~
di.li.li.ti.ral. - 5 syllables

dili = dili literal
dili literal

dili literal : figurative (adj.); nonliteral (adj.)
literal : literal (n.)
[ Etymology: English: literal ]
Synonyms: dili matitikanon
Related words: masumbingayon

Derivatives of literal


Glosses:
figurative
adj. 1. figurative, nonliteral(used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech.; "figurative language"
~ analogicalexpressing, composed of, or based on an analogy.; "the analogical use of a metaphor"
~ extendedbeyond the literal or primary sense.; "`hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'"
~ metaphoric, metaphoricalexpressing one thing in terms normally denoting another.; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language"
~ metonymic, metonymicalusing the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated.; "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works"
~ poeticcharacterized by romantic imagery.; "Turner's vision of the rainbow...was poetic"
~ synecdochic, synecdochicalusing 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.; "to use `hand' for `worker' or `ten sail' for `ten ships' or `steel' for `sword' is to use a synecdochic figure of speech"
~ tropicalcharacterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense.
~ rhetoricalgiven to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought.; "mere rhetorical frippery"
adj. 2. figural, figurativeconsisting of or forming human or animal figures.; "a figural design"; "the figurative art of the humanistic tradition"
~ representational(used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen.; "representational art"; "representational images"
nonliteral