hypermetaphorical

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ metaphorical

Adjective

hypermetaphorical (comparative more hypermetaphorical, superlative most hypermetaphorical)

1. Highly metaphorical.
   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus: In Three Books, page 295:

     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.

   • 1996, J. M. Coetzee, Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship, page 38:

     For writing not only comes out of the zoo but (to be hypermetaphorical) goes back in again.

   • 2000, Hélène Stafford, Mallarmé and the Poetics of Everyday Life, page 179:

     The prose language in particular is hypermetaphorical, offering a number of processes and stages of metaphorisation […]