figured
English
Etymology
From figure + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡəd/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ˈfɪɡ(j)ɚd/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: (UK) -ɪɡəd
Verb
figured
- simple past tense and past participle of figure
Adjective
figured (comparative more figured, superlative most figured)
- (of a natural material) Having a pattern considered attractive appearing on a section.
- Figured wood is especially sought after for its distinctive texture.
- Adorned with a figure or figures.
- 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828, page 01:
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p.446:
- Some of these mosaics have been carefully altered to replaced figured by non-figured designs.
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Derived terms
- figured bass
- full-figured
Translations
having an attractive pattern
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References
Figure (wood) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- fudgier