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representational

adjective as in lifelike

adjective as in realistic

adjective as in schematic

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Of the two teams that produced representational paintings, only one explicitly depicts the newlyweds.

Despite representational gestures, there’s not structural change or a redistribution of money.

Imbalances like this threaten core values of representational democracy like fairness, inclusion and equality.

The cyanotypes and photograms are the closest things to representational works in the show, and they’re deliberately cryptic and detached.

The selection includes abstract works, but most of those seem less urgent than the representational ones.

This is jaw-droppingly strange since perfumes, like paintings and sculpture, are often hyper-representational.

The idea of placing atop this perfect thing a big granite planith surmounted by a representational bronze ... ugh.

The very fact of depicting at one-to-one carries special representational weight.

In fact, when used correctly (i.e., by the Democrats), the filibuster can help right this representational wrong.

Voit documents a perceptual anomaly and allows it to trick us—or not—without any representational manipulation.

To justify our presence there the only thing demanded of us is that we shall have felt the representational impulse.

Strictly representational it may not be, but there are none of your whorls and cylinders and angles and what nots.

On the functional theory of ideas, their value does not rest at all upon their representational nature.

His books are neither documentary nor representational; his characters are symbols of human desires and motives.

He wondered what on earth "anti-representational" could mean.

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On this page you'll find 115 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to representational, such as: blocked-out, delineated, depicted, descriptive, diagrammatic, and drawn.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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