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Meanings of nonfigurative in English

Not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature.

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Examples for "abstract"
1
It was still distant, abstract: battles at sea thousands of miles off.
Iron Council
2
Part of the problem is that microformats are thus far very abstract.
Wired
3
Freedom -rather more complicated in the concrete than the abstract, yes?'
Orb Sceptre Throne
4
ITF's interest in Ireland's rescue services therefore is not an abstract thing.
The Irish Times
5
The idea of vegetation in general is too abstract to be primitive.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
1
The youthful abstractionist, Lowndes Cleburn, expressed it even better.
Tales of the Chesapeake
2
In 1910 he went to Paris fell under Cubist influence and gradually developed into an abstractionist.
The new yorker
3
Senator Tazewell, Mr. Randolph's colleague, was a first-class Virginia abstractionist and an avowed hater of New England.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 / of Sixty Years in the National ...
4
He is an abstractionist who aims at getting not the mere conformation of a scene but its essence.
The new yorker
5
At only large Rome art gallery, the Galleria Palma, there is an exhibit of the work of abstractionist, Afro.
The new yorker
Usage of nonfigurative in English
1
It is primarily decorative and nonfigurative, and flourished under the twin umbrellas of religion and classical Arabic calligraphy.
The new yorker
Nonfigurative through the time