unfigurative

English

Etymology

un- +‎ figurative

Adjective

unfigurative (comparative more unfigurative, superlative most unfigurative)

1. 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.