hypermetaphorical
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
34
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "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 […]"
Etymology
From hyper- + metaphorical.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more hypermetaphorical (comparative)
most hypermetaphorical (superlative)