English-Swedish translations for figurative

figurativMan måste också sluta att skapa en europeisk offentlig funktion delad i nationer och nästan endogamisk, i verklig och figurativ bemärkelse.We must also stop manufacturing a European civil service cut off from the nations and virtually endogamous, both literally and figuratively.
figurlig

Of use as a metaphor, simile, or metonym, as opposed to literal; using figures; as when saying that someone who eats more than they should is a pig or like a pig
Metaphorically so called
Emblematic, symbolic; representative, exemplative
representing forms recognisable in life and clearly derived from real object sources, in contrast to

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