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

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   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 a background of summer vacation sensuality.

   1994 July 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader