Usually means: Using figures of speech metaphorically.
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  1. figurately: Merriam-Webster
  2. figurately: Collins English Dictionary
  3. figurately: Wordnik
  4. figurately: Wiktionary
  5. Figurately: Dictionary.com
  6. Figurately: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. figurately: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Figurately: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. figurately: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Figurately: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (figurately)

▸ adverb:  figuratively, in a figurative manner.
▸ adverb:  In a figurate manner; Using or forming a figure.

Similar:
figuratively, figurally, unfiguratively, metaphorically, prefiguratively, allegorically, literarily, symbolically, fictionally, imagistically, more...

Opposite:
literally, concretely, factually

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Similar:
figuratively, figurally, unfiguratively, metaphorically, prefiguratively, allegorically, literarily, symbolically, fictionally, imagistically, more...

Opposite:
literally, concretely, factually



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