figural
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old French figural, from late Latin figūrālis, from figūra (“figure”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡ(j)ʊɹəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡjəɹəl/
- Hyphenation: fig‧ur‧al
Adjective edit
figural (comparative more figural, superlative most figural)
- Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
- 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 185:
- The counterparts, in the Christian era, to the figural anticipation of Christ in the Old Testament were the deliverer monarchs and leaders of later times […]
- Figurative, not literal.
- (mathematics, obsolete) Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a figure, shape.
- (rare) Pertaining to (human) figures.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 262–3:
- Some of the Umayyads found themselves charmed by the cultures which they had conquered, so that archaeologists in Palestine and Syria have revealed an astonishing flourishing of Christian-style figural art under their rule.
- (music) Figurate.
Old French edit
Adjective edit
figural m (oblique and nominative feminine singular figurale)
Declension edit
Declension of figural