Hypermetaphorical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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

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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."

Etymology

From hyper- + metaphorical.

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