figuratively
About 0.84 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adverb In a figurative manner.
- adverb Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.
Figuratively, the cat was out of the bag.
Similar words
metaphorically figurately figurally unfiguratively literarily allegorically symbolically manneristically fictionally nonliterally
Often followed by
speaking and to in as or the of for
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