figured Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb judge to be probable
    calculate; figure; reckon; forecast; estimate; count on.
  2. verb be or play a part of or in
    figure; enter.
    • Elections figure prominently in every government program
    • How do the elections figure in the current pattern of internal politics?
  3. verb imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind
    picture; visualize; envision; figure; visualise; image; fancy; project; see.
    • I can't see him on horseback!
    • I can see what will happen
    • I can see a risk in this strategy
  4. verb make a mathematical calculation or computation
    cypher; compute; calculate; work out; reckon; cipher; figure.
  5. verb understand
    figure.
    • He didn't figure her
  6. adjective satellite (of e.g. fabric design) adorned with patterns
    • my dress is richly figured"- Amy Lowell

WordNet

Fig"ured adjective
Definitions
  1. Adorned with figures; marked with figures; as, figured muslin.
  2. Not literal; figurative. Obs. Locke.
  3. (Mus.) (a) Free and florid; as, a figured descant. See Figurate, 3. (b) Indicated or noted by figures.

Webster 1913