1.
If you use a word or expression in a ~ sense, you use it with a more abstract or imaginative meaning than its ordinary literal one.
...an event that will change your route–in both the literal and ~ sense.
? literal
ADJ: usu ADJ n
~ly
Europe, with Germany literally and ~ly at its centre, is still at the start of a remarkable transformation.
ADV: ADV with cl/group, ADV with v
2.
Figurative art is a style of art in which people and things are shown in a realistic way.
His career spanned some 50 years and encompassed both abstract and ~ painting.
? abstract
ADJ: usu ADJ n