Words and phrases that have a meaning related to exaggeration: (130 results)
Antonyms:
understatement
Often used in the same context:
hyperbole, overstatement, oversimplification, understatement, untruth, wishful thinking, hogwash, balderdash, apocryphal, poppycock, tautology, overkill, misquotation, irony, generalization, underestimation, misnomer, revisionism, vagary, absurdity, coincidence, flapdoodle, overreaction, nonsense, aberration, mischaracterization, misquote, cliche, non sequitur, sophistry, fibbing, affectation, disingenuity, humbug, disingenuousness, red herring, extrapolation, puffery, reductio ad absurdum, antisemite, misrepresentation, ghastliness, pedantry, baloney, embellishment, pollyannaish, inexactitude, sensationalist, fictionalisation, contradiction, braggadocio, ado, bunkum, misstatement, alarmism, hyperbolizing, nitpicking, folly, synecdoche, immoderation, cravenness, hypocrisy, cynic, oxymoron, soft soaping, doublespeak, bloviation, jugglery, anachronism, pomposity, tendentiousness, misprint, braggart, distortion, idiocy, tommyrot, furphy, atrociousness, sophism, fatuousness, knavery, conjecture, journalese, prevaricator, travesty, facetiousness, refutation, reactionism, bollocks, extenuation, equivocation, falsifier, stupidity, twaddle, copout, liar, specious argument, abstract noun, mendacity, boneheadedness, posturing, exaggerations, extravagance, bombast, improbability, inaccuracy, incongruity, artificiality, excess, impatience, unfairness, improbabilities, irreverence, absurdities, awkwardness
Appears in the definition of:
cool, hyperbole, literally, proclivity, virtually
Synonyms:
Also try:magnification
— Adjectives for exaggeration: gross, slight, much, great, little, vertical, rhetorical, wild, considerable, obvious, humorous, more...
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