1 Rinse and pat dry the broccoli. 2  Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat, add the crushed red pepper and heat 1 minute. 3  Cook and stir the broccoli in the skillet until it begins to get crispy, 5 to 7 minutes.
figuratively/ literally. Figuratively means metaphorically, and literally describes something that actually happened. If you say that a guitar solo literally blew your head off, your head should not be attached to your body. But they're also going to create literally a tidal wave of data. There wasn't an actual tidal wave, just a lot of data.
Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition: 1  figurative, nonliteral(adj) (used of the meanings of words or text) not literal; using figures of speech. 2  figural, figurative(adj) consisting of or forming human or animal figures.