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单词 hypermetaphorical
释义

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 []
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