ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hypermetaphorical

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Hypermetaphorical is an adjective meaning Highly metaphorical.

Meaning

Highly metaphorical.

Example Sentences

For writing not only comes out of the zoo but (to be hypermetaphorical) goes back in again.
The prose language in particular is hypermetaphorical, offering a number of processes and stages of metaphorisation […]
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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include multimetaphorical, figurative, transumptive, metaphrased, literalistic, literal-minded.

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