Hypermetaphorical
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From hyper- + metaphorical.
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