Is not a figure meant to represent a fantasy? (7)
I believe the answer is:
figment
'a fantasy?' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'is not a figure meant to represent' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'not' could be 'nt' (synonyms) and 'nt' is present in the answer.
'figure' could be 'fig' (synonyms) and 'fig' is found in the answer.
The remaining letters 'me' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for figment that I've seen before include "Imaginary thing" , "Imagined object" , "Fantastic notion" , "Fancy, fabrication" , "fantastic idea" .)