Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

unmetaphorical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: un-metaphor-i-cal
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Not metaphorical.

Example Sentences

"An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for: is not your very Attention a Stretching-to?"
"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."

Etymology

From un- + metaphorical.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: un

Inflected Forms

more unmetaphorical (comparative) most unmetaphorical (superlative)

Derived Forms

unmetaphorically

Questions

What does unmetaphorical mean?: Not metaphorical.
Where does unmetaphorical come from?: From un- + metaphorical.

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