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English
Etymology
From un- + metaphorical.
Adjective
unmetaphorical (comparative more unmetaphorical, superlative most unmetaphorical)
- Not metaphorical.
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.