unmetaphorical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
un- + metaphorical
Adjective[edit]
unmetaphorical (comparative more unmetaphorical, superlative most unmetaphorical)
- Not metaphorical.
- 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Prospective”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book first, page 49:
- An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very Attention a Stretching-to?
- 1994 July 8, Bill Wyman, “Calendar”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- A Little Night Music crosses Ingmar Bergman's randy Smiles of a Summer Night with Stephen Sondheim's typically chilly emotionalism; the result is a spectrum of romantic pathologies—including several shades of metaphorical incest and several more entirely unmetaphorical adulteries—played out against a background of summer vacation sensuality.