Words and phrases that have a meaning related to understatement: (121 results)
Antonyms:
exaggeration, magnification, overstatement
Often used in the same context:
exaggeration, overstatement, aberration, oxymoron, oversimplification, overreaction, accomplishment, adjective, optimist, affront, anticlimax, ironist, bummer, retrospect, epitome, irony, miscalculation, copout, overachiever, anachronism, tad, hyperbole, vagary, trifle, underestimation, anomaly, comedown, downer, eyeopener, omen, letdown, overkill, cynic, yawner, exclamation point, augury, braggart, makings, juxtaposition, poetic justice, disingenuity, occupational hazard, exclamation mark, incongruity, weatherwise, curmudgeon, abomination, travesty, artlessness, perfectionist, generalization, nitpicker, underachiever, vindication, ingenuousness, oddity, clodhopper, misnomer, bit, impertinence, antithesis, compliment, overreach, admirer, kidder, omission, huh, throwback, good naturedness, dejecting, incredibility, worrier, boneheadedness, enigma, hindsight, capper, gloomy gus, shocker, enunciation, acknowledgment, egotist, assemblage, ambitiousness, kinda, plodder, frankness, grammarian, appreciator, observers, contradiction, pithiness, practical joker, bluntness, foreshadowing, dumbness, blunderer, misprint, mudder, pluperfect, expansiveness, humility, outlier, underestimate, exaggerations, casualness, indirection, miscalculations, reticence, aplomb, disproportion, disservice, overvaluation, terseness, inaccuracy
More specific:
litote
More general:
Also try:statement
— Adjectives for understatement: gross, considerable, british, classic, typical, characteristic, substantial, ironic, deliberate, vast, serious, more...
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