hypermetaphorical

adjective

Highly metaphorical.

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Meanings

adjectivehypermetaphorical (comparative more hypermetaphorical, superlative most hypermetaphorical)

comparative more hypermetaphorical · superlative most hypermetaphorical

  1. Highly metaphorical.

    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
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    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

    The prose language in particular is hypermetaphorical, offering a number of processes and stages of metaphorisation […]

    2000, Hélène Stafford, Mallarmé and the Poetics of Everyday Life, page 179

Origin

From hyper- + metaphorical.

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