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unmetaphorical

unmetaphorical adjective: not metaphorical.

Adjective

unmetaphorical (comparative more unmetaphorical, superlative most unmetaphorical)

  1. Not metaphorical.
    • An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very Attention a Stretching-to?1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Prospective”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 49
    • A Little Night Music crosses Ingmar Bergman's randy Smiles of a Summer Night with Stephen Sondheim's typically chilly emotionalism; the result is a spectrum of romantic pathologies—including several shades of metaphorical incest and several more entirely unmetaphorical adulteries—played out against...1994 July 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader

Forms of unmetaphorical

comparativemore unmetaphorical
superlativemost unmetaphorical

Origin of unmetaphorical

From un- + metaphorical.

Words formed from unmetaphorical

Questions about unmetaphorical

What does unmetaphorical mean?
Unmetaphorical means not metaphorical.
What part of speech is unmetaphorical?
Unmetaphorical is an adjective.

Words near unmetaphorical in the dictionary

  1. unmetallurgical
  2. unmetamorphic
  3. unmetamorphized
  4. unmetamorphosed
  5. unmetaphoric
  6. unmetaphorical
  7. unmetaphorically
  8. unmetaphysic
  9. unmetaphysical
  10. unmetasomatized
  11. unmetastasised

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