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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
Example sentences :
  • 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

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