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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to exaggeration:   (133 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

More general:
deceit, deception, figure, figure of speech, image, increase, misrepresentation, step-up, trope

Synonyms:
hyperbole, magnification, overstatement

Also try:
— Adjectives for exaggeration: gross, slight, much, great, little, vertical, rhetorical, wild, considerable, obvious, humorous, more...

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