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understatement
[uhn-der-steyt-muhnt, uhn-der-steyt-] 
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understatement
[uhn-der-steyt-muhnt, uhn-der-steyt-]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | restrained statement |
| Synonyms: | belittlement, distortion, irony, litotes, oversimplification, sarcasm, underestimation |
| Antonyms: | exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement |
| Main Entry: | figure of speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turn of expression |
| Synonyms: | adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking |
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