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Meaning of hypermetaphorical | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2

Definitions

Highly metaphorical.

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.”
“For writing not only comes out of the zoo but (to be hypermetaphorical) goes back in again.”
“The prose language in particular is hypermetaphorical, offering a number of processes and stages of metaphorisation […]”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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See also

hypermetaphysical hypermethylated hypermetric hypermetrical hypermetropic hypermetropical

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