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1Exaggeration — is a representation of something in an excessive manner. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle s discussion of the alazon: the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished… …
2exaggeration — exaggeration, overstatement, hyperbole all mean an overstepping of the bounds of truth, especially in describing the goodness or badness or the greatness or the smallness of something. Exaggeration does not always or even often imply dishonesty… …
3exaggeration — UK [ɪɡˌzædʒəˈreɪʃ(ə)n] / US noun Word forms exaggeration : singular exaggeration plural exaggerations a) [countable] a comment or description that makes something seem better, worse, larger, more important etc than it really is To describe it as… …
4exaggeration — ex|ag|ger|a|tion [ ıg,zædʒə reıʃn ] noun count a comment or description that makes something seem better, worse, larger, more important, etc. than it really is: To describe it as depression would be an exaggeration she was just not very happy. a… …
5exaggeration — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ great, gross, huge, wild ▪ mild, slight … OF EXAGGERATION ▪ degree …
6exaggeration — ex|ag|ge|ra|tion [ıgˌzædʒəˈreıʃən] n [U and C] a statement or way of saying something that makes something seem better, larger etc than it really is ▪ It would be an exaggeration to say that we were close friends. ▪ It is no exaggeration to say… …
7exaggeration — n. 1) a gross exaggeration 2) exaggeration to + inf. (it is an exaggeration to claim that inflation has been controlled) * * * [ɪgˌzædʒə reɪʃ(ə)n] a gross exaggeration exaggeration to + inf. (it is an exaggeration to claim that inflation has been …
8exaggeration — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) False magnification Nouns 1. exaggeration, magnification, overstatement, inflation, puffing up, hyperbole, stretch, strain, [high or false] coloring, caricature, extravagance. See distortion, figurative …
9exaggeration — noun (C, U) a statement or way of saying something that makes something seem better, more important etc than it really is: I can say without exaggeration he s the best operator in the business. | it is no exaggeration: It is no exaggeration to… …
10exaggeration — a collective noun (a noun that denotes a collection of persons or things regarded as a unit) for fishermen …