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figured
CIDE DICTIONARY
figured, a.
- Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin. [1913 Webster]
- Not literal; figurative. Locke. [1913 Webster]
- Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
figured
adorned, allusive, arranged, beaded, bedecked, bedizened, befrilled, bejeweled, beribboned, bespangled, blueprinted, calculated, charted, colored, contrived, decked out, decorated, designed, devised, embellished, embroidered, fancy, feathered, festooned, figurative, florid, flowered, flowery, garnished, in the works, jeweled, lush, luxuriant, mannered, metaphorical, methodized, on the agenda, on the anvil, on the calendar, on the carpet, on the docket, on the tapis, organized, ornamented, ornate, overcharged, overloaded, planned, plotted, plumed, projected, purple, rationalized, referential, scheduled, schematized, set, shaped, spangled, spangly, strategetic, strategic, studded, sur le tapis, systematized, tactical, tricked out, trimmed, trolatitious, tropological, worked out, wreathedFor further exploring for "figured" in Webster Dictionary Online