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Antonyms for figure
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : fig-yer; especially British fig-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪg yər; especially British ˈfɪg ər |
Definition of figure
Origin :- early 13c., "visible form or appearance of a person," from Old French figure (10c.) "shape, body, form, figure; symbol, allegory," from Latin figura "a shape, form, figure," from PIE *dheigh- "to form, build" (see dough); originally in English with meaning "numeral," but sense of "form, likeness" is almost as old (mid-13c.).
- Philosophical and scientific senses are from Latin figura being used to translate Greek skhema. The rhetorical use of figure dates to late 14c.; hence figure of speech (1824). Figure eight as a shape was originally figure of eight (c.1600).
- noun numeral; numeric value
- noun form, shape; physical structure
- noun object with design; depiction
- noun famous person
- verb calculate, compute
- verb understand; decide, infer
- Robert glanced at Halbert's figure, slight compared with his own, and laughed.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- Coming on deck, he saw a figure which seemed familiar to him.
- Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
- A figure in white, with a stiff white cap, stood by the bed.
- Extract from : « Life and Death of Harriett Frean » by May Sinclair
- Gives her opinion of the force which figure or person may be allowed to have upon her sex.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- You can peel the stuff out of your pockets with one hand, I figure.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- But here's what puzzles me: according to the way I figure it, you must have seen the girl first.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- He was in white, like the figure—necessarily so, because he had his night-dress on.
- Extract from : « To be Read at Dusk » by Charles Dickens
- The grace of your figure makes everything you wear becoming.
- Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
- And with him, as before, was a second figure, which advanced slinkingly.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- His eyes were caught by a figure, the figure of Cassidy, advancing there in the corridor.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
Synonyms for figure
- add
- amount
- anatomy
- appearance
- attitude
- bod
- body
- build
- carriage
- cast
- catch on to
- celebrity
- character
- chassis
- chiffer
- cipher
- clear up
- composition
- comprehend
- conclude
- configuration
- conformation
- constitution
- cost
- count
- count heads
- count noses
- crack
- cut ice
- decipher
- decode
- decoration
- delineation
- determine
- development
- device
- diagram
- digit
- dignitary
- discover
- disentangle
- dope out
- drawing
- effigy
- embellishment
- emblem
- enumerate
- estimate
- fathom
- fix a price
- follow
- foot
- force
- frame
- get
- guess
- illustration
- image
- integer
- keep tabs
- leader
- make heads or tails of
- make out
- mass
- master
- measurements
- model
- mold
- motif
- motive
- notability
- notable
- number
- opine
- ornamentation
- outline
- pattern
- personage
- personality
- physique
- piece
- portrait
- pose
- posture
- presence
- price
- proportions
- puzzle out
- quotation
- rate
- reason
- reckon
- representation
- resolve
- rule
- run down
- see
- settle
- shadow
- silhouette
- sketch
- solve
- somebody
- statue
- substance
- sum
- summate
- suppose
- symbol
- take account of
- tally
- terms
- think
- think out
- torso
- tot
- tot up
- total
- totalize
- tote
- unfold
- unravel
- unriddle
- unscramble
- untangle
- work out
- worth
- worthy
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