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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not literal, but symbolic |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, denotative, descriptive, emblematic, emblematical, fanciful, florid, flowery, illustrative, metaphoric, metaphorical, ornate, pictorial, poetical, representative, signifying, typical |
| Antonyms: | literal, real, straightforward |
| Main Entry: | florid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very elaborate |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, busy, decorative, embellished, euphuistic, figurative, flamboyant, flowery, fussy, garnished, grandiloquent, high-flown, luscious, magniloquent, ornamental, ornamented, ornate, overblown, pretentious, rhetorical, rich, sonorous |
| Notes: | floriated means 'decorated with flowers' while florid is 'blooming with flowers' |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, natural, plain, undecorated, unornate |
| Main Entry: | flowery |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ornate, especially referring to speech or writing |
| Synonyms: | aureate, baroque, bombastic, declamatory, diffuse, embellished, euphemistic, euphuistic, fancy, figurative, florid, grandiloquent, high-flown, magniloquent, ornamented, overwrought, prolix, purple, redundant, rhetorical, rococo, sonorous, swollen, verbose, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | inelaborate, plain, unembellished, unflowery, unornate |
| Main Entry: | graphic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | clear, explicit |
| Synonyms: | colorful, compelling, comprehensible, concrete, convincing, definite, descriptive, detailed, distinct, eloquent, expressive, figurative, forcible, illustrative, incisive, intelligible, lively, lucid, moving, perspicuous, picturesque, precise, realistic, stirring, striking, strong, telling, unequivocal, vivid |
| Antonyms: | implicit, unclear, vague |
| Main Entry: | illustrative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | explanatory |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, clarifying, comparative, corroborative, delineative, descriptive, diagrammatic, emblematic, exemplifying, explicatory, expository, figurative, graphic, iconographic, illuminative, illustrational, illustratory, imagistic, indicative, interpretive, metaphoric, pictorial, pictoric, representative, revealing, sample, specifying, symbolic, typical |
| Notes: | illustrative means clarifying by use of examples or serving to demonstrate, while illustrious means widely known and esteemed or having or conferring glory |
| Antonyms: | atypical, complicated, confusing, involved |
| Main Entry: | symbolic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | representative |
| Synonyms: | allegorical, characteristic, denotative, emblematic, figurative, indicative, indicatory, significant, suggestive, symptomatic, token, typical |
| Main Entry: | euphemistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | polite |
| Synonyms: | affected, delicate, euphemious, extenuative, figurative, indirect, inoffensive, metaphorical, mild, refined, softened, vague |
| Main Entry: | emblematic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | symbolic |
| Synonyms: | characteristic, emblematical, exemplary, figurative, representative, symbolical, typical |
| Main Entry: | emblematical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | symbolic |
| Synonyms: | characteristic, emblematic, exemplary, figurative, representative, symbolical, typical |
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