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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unmetaphoric en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English metaphoric English unmetaphoric From un- + metaphoric.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not metaphoric; not endowed with the quality of a metaphor
    • He wrote simple, unmetaphoric sentences.

Relateds

unmetaphorically · metaphoric

Synonyms

unmetaphorical