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Meanings of nonfigurative in английском

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 английском
        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