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hypermetaphorical

hypermetaphorical adjective: highly metaphorical.

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
    • For writing not only comes out of the zoo but (to be hypermetaphorical) goes back in again.1996, J. M. Coetzee, Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship, page 38

Forms of hypermetaphorical

comparativemore hypermetaphorical
superlativemost hypermetaphorical

Origin of hypermetaphorical

From hyper- + metaphorical.

Questions about hypermetaphorical

What does hypermetaphorical mean?
Hypermetaphorical means highly metaphorical.
What part of speech is hypermetaphorical?
Hypermetaphorical is an adjective.

Words near hypermetaphorical in the dictionary

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

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