representational
Americanadjective
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of or relating to representation.
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representing or depicting an object in a recognizable manner.
representational art.
adjective
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fine arts depicting or attempting to depict objects, scenes, figures, etc, directly as seen; naturalistic
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of or relating to representation
Other Word Forms
- unrepresentational adjective
Etymology
Origin of representational
First recorded in 1850–55; representation + -al 1
Example Sentences
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They reported using only $642 million for “representational activities,” which are related to organizing or job actions, the authors say.
Plainly this genre has quite a distance to travel to achieve representational parity that doesn’t come at the cost of justice.
From Salon
Kahn’s most representational works are his least interesting; it’s in the careful dissection of his elements and the revelation of what we’re looking at that the most joy is found.
“It was an absolute joy to discover that there was nothing that Chris and Paul had to change to make it representational,” Dumezweni says.
From Los Angeles Times
But those artists approached representational imagery in a wide variety of ways.
From Los Angeles Times
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