Added 9 October 2026 figuratively adverb Categories: Describing WordsRare Words In Latin: figūrātīvē, tropicē Wiktionary adverb ! Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). More about figuratively at Wordnik → Where our words come from → In a figurative manner. 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. Related Words: metaphoricallyfiguratelyfigurallyunfigurativelyliterarilyallegoricallysymbolicallymanneristicallyfictionallynonliterallyprefigurativelyironically Back to today's word