Usually means: Not literal, metaphorical or symbolic.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word figuratively:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. figuratively: Merriam-Webster
  2. figuratively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. figuratively: Collins English Dictionary
  4. figuratively: Vocabulary.com
  5. Figuratively, figuratively: Wordnik
  6. figuratively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. figuratively: Wiktionary
  8. figuratively: Dictionary.com
  9. figuratively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. figuratively: Rhymezone
  11. figuratively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. figuratively: FreeDictionary.org
  13. figuratively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. figuratively: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figuratively: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figuratively: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. figuratively: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See figurative as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  (manner) In a figurative manner.
adverb:  (as a sentence adverb) Used to indicate that what follows is to be taken as a figure of speech, not literally.

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