Words and phrases that have a meaning related to hyperbole: (123 results)
Often used in the same context:
exaggeration, bombast, puffery, blather, flapdoodle, balderdash, silliness, sophistry, demagoguery, drivel, bloviation, wishful thinking, jingoism, doublespeak, lunacy, poppycock, idiocy, posturing, hype, braggadocio, bluster, hysteria, sarcasm, hokum, rhetoric, revisionism, invective, verbiage, nonsense, grandiloquence, inanity, twaddle, hogwash, sensationalism, polemics, innuendo, alarmism, conjecture, snark, platitude, vitriol, histrionics, bravado, baloney, claptrap, superlatives, tautology, facetiousness, punditry, pedantry, cliches, gamesmanship, editorializing, mumbo jumbo, pomposity, hagiography, flummery, gobbledygook, buncombe, bafflegab, weasel words, psychobabble, nastiness, hubris, absurdity, folderol, hackery, pompousness, triumphalism, boosterism, theatrics, hypocrisy, falsehood, vituperation, jackassery, journalese, cynicism, churlishness, tommyrot, sanctimony, foolishness, sentimentalism, hooey, gimmickry, obfuscation, sloganeering, buffoonery, misquotation, dilettantism, humbug, ad hominem, pretentiousness, malarkey, boastfulness, soundbite, negativity, stupidity, verbosity, misinformation, bunkum, exaggerations, overstatement, theatricality, affectation, extravagance, flamboyance, bravura, indirection, caricature, mannerism, sentimentality, conceit, equivocation, exuberance
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— Adjectives for hyperbole: such, mere, rhetorical, oriental, poetic, extravagant, typical, much, characteristic, political, usual, more...
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