unmetaphoricaladj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˌmɛtəˈfɒrᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌənˌmɛdəˈfɔrək(ə)l/ Not metaphorical.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > plainness > [adjective] > literal
unfigured1577
unmetaphorical1641
unrhetorical1680
literal1690
unfigurative1780
uncaricatured1880
non-metaphorical1941
1641 E. Kellett Tricoenium Christi iii. v. 588 God hath..given us a power, above Angels and Archangels, in..most powerfull, un-metaphoricall, proper words.
1746 J. Wesley Let. 25 June (1982) II. 199 In as plain and unmetaphorical words as the nature of the thing would bear.
1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xiii. 53 I am got..into a cold unmetaphorical vein of infamous writing.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. xi. 26/1 An unmetaphorical style you shall in vain seek for.
1918 A. J. Todd Theories of Social Progress iv. 44 In plain unmetaphorical language they insist that human minds are not separate but interwoven.
2003 Philosophy 78 391 I did my best to give unmetaphorical substance to describing time as composed of units.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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