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hypermetaphorical en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + metaphorical.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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