unmetaphorical

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ metaphorical.

Adjective

unmetaphorical (comparative more unmetaphorical, superlative most unmetaphorical)

  1. Not metaphorical.
    • 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Prospective”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. , London: Chapman and Hall, , →OCLC, 1st book, 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:
      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.