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hypermetaphoric

hypermetaphoric is the alternative form of hypermetaphorical.

Meaning of hypermetaphorical

Adjective

hypermetaphorical (comparative more hypermetaphorical, superlative most hypermetaphorical)

  1. Highly metaphorical.
    • What a result, should this piebald, entangled, hypermetaphorical style of writing, not to say of thinking, become general among our literary men! as it might so easily do.1837, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: In Three Books, page 295

Forms of hypermetaphoric

comparativemore hypermetaphoric
superlativemost hypermetaphoric

Questions about hypermetaphoric

What is hypermetaphoric the alternative form of?
Hypermetaphoric is the alternative form of hypermetaphorical.

Words near hypermetaphoric in the dictionary

  1. hypermetamorphic
  2. hypermetamorphism
  3. hypermetamorphoses
  4. hypermetamorphosis
  5. hypermetamorphotic
  6. hypermetaphoric
  7. hypermetaphorical
  8. hypermetaphysical
  9. hypermeter
  10. hypermeters
  11. hypermethionemia

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