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over-emphasises
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overstatement, embellishment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
| Antonyms: | minimization, reduction, understatement, unembellishment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tall talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exaggeration |
| Synonyms: | aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash, hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, jazz, line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, overstatement, pretension, pretentiousness, rant, romance, stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | exaggeration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
bombastic, egregious, exaggerated, extravagant, fabulous, high, on stilts, overwrought, preposterous, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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| Concept: | Exaggeration. |
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-nouns
exaggeration; expansion; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance (nonsense); Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry., storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing (overestimation); puff, puffery (boasting); rant (turgescence)., figure of speech, facon de parler; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy (imagination)., false coloring (falsehood); aggravation.
-verbs
exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify (expand); overestimate; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous., out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random., heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color (misrepresent); puff (boast).
-adjectives
exaggerated; overwrought; bombastic (grandiloquent); hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying.
-adverbs
hyperbolically
-phrases
excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Cicero].
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