Word family noun representation representative adjective representative ≠ unrepresentative representational verb represent
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishrepresentationalrep‧re‧sen‧ta‧tion‧al /ˌreprɪzenˈteɪʃənəl/ adjective AVa representational painting or style of art shows things as they actually appear in real life SYN figurativeExamples from the Corpus
representational• And from time to time, the sample may be exactly representational.• Of all the eidetic images that remain from my childhood, frozen with crude representational accuracy, this is the most vivid.• He suggested that there are three major differences between representational and sensorimotor behavior.• The union provides the same level of representational assistance to all divisions.• In representational behaviour, on the other hand, all the meanings are made explicit.• The perceptual is something much broader than hand-eye skills and representational drawing.• The concept of neutrality is closely interrelated with representational faithfulness.• These early words are usually not used to represent objects and are not language in the representational sense.• The development of representational skills and the socialization of behavior are presented first.