Definition of representational adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

representational

adjective

/ˌreprɪzenˈteɪʃənl/

(specialist) (especially of a style of art or painting) trying to show things as they really are
- It is on pottery that representational art first appeared in ancient Greece.
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involving the act of representing somebody/something
- local representational democracy

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