exaggeration 音标拼音: [ɪgz
, ædʒɚ'eʃən]
n . 夸张,夸大之词
夸张,夸大之词
exaggeration n 1 :
extravagant exaggeration [
synonym : {
hyperbole }, {
exaggeration }]
2 :
the act of making something more noticeable than usual ; "
the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness "
3 :
making to seem more important than it really is [
synonym :
{
exaggeration }, {
overstatement }, {
magnification }] [
ant :
{
understatement }]
Exaggeration \
Ex *
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ger *
a "
tion \,
n . [
L .
exaggeratio :
cf .
F .
exag ['
e ]
ration .]
1 .
The act of heaping or piling up . [
Obs .] "
Exaggeration of sand ." --
Sir M .
Hale .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
The act of exaggerating ;
the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner ;
a going beyond the bounds of truth reason ,
or justice ;
a hyperbolical representation ;
hyperbole ;
overstatement .
[
1913 Webster ]
No need of an exaggeration of what they saw . --
I .
Taylor .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 . (
Paint .)
A representation of things beyond natural life ,
in expression ,
beauty ,
power ,
vigor .
[
1913 Webster ]
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "
exaggeration ":
abandon ,
abstractionism ,
accelerando ,
acceleration ,
affectation ,
aggrandizement ,
aggravation ,
amplification ,
beefing -
up ,
blague ,
blowing up ,
blowup ,
boundlessness ,
cock -
and -
bull story ,
coloring ,
command of language ,
concentration ,
condensation ,
confabulation ,
consolidation ,
deepening ,
deformation ,
distortion ,
egregiousness ,
embellishment ,
enhancement ,
enlargement ,
enormousness ,
equivocation ,
exacerbation ,
excess ,
excessiveness ,
exorbitance ,
exorbitancy ,
explosion ,
expression of ideas ,
expressionism ,
extravagance ,
extravagancy ,
extreme ,
extremes ,
extremism ,
extremity ,
fabulousness ,
fairy tale ,
false coloring ,
false swearing ,
falsehood ,
falsification ,
falsifying ,
falsity ,
farfetched story ,
farrago ,
fashion ,
feeling for words ,
fib ,
fiction ,
fish story ,
flam ,
flight of fancy ,
flimflam ,
form of speech ,
garbling ,
ghost story ,
giantism ,
gigantism ,
gluttony ,
grace of expression ,
grandiloquence ,
half -
truth ,
heating -
up ,
heightening ,
hyperbole ,
hypertrophy ,
immoderacy ,
immoderateness ,
immoderation ,
inaccuracy ,
incontinence ,
inflation ,
information explosion ,
injustice ,
inordinacy ,
inordinance ,
inordinateness ,
intemperance ,
intemperateness ,
intensification ,
inundation ,
legal fiction ,
lie ,
literary style ,
litotes ,
little white lie ,
magnification ,
manner ,
manner of speaking ,
mannerism ,
mendacity ,
miscoloring ,
misconstruction ,
misdrawing ,
mispainting ,
misquotation ,
misreport ,
misrepresentation ,
misstatement ,
misteaching ,
mode ,
mode of expression ,
monstrousness ,
nimiety ,
nonrealism ,
outrageousness ,
overappraisal ,
overassessment ,
overcalculation ,
overdevelopment ,
overdrawing ,
overestimate ,
overestimation ,
overflowing ,
overgreatness ,
overgrowth ,
overindulgence ,
overlargeness ,
overmuch ,
overmuchness ,
overpass ,
overrating ,
overreaction ,
overreckoning ,
overrun ,
overrunning ,
overspreading ,
overstatement ,
overvaluation ,
peculiarity ,
perjury ,
personal style ,
perversion ,
pickup ,
pious fiction ,
population explosion ,
prevarication ,
radicalism ,
redoubling ,
reinforcement ,
rhetoric ,
romance ,
sense of language ,
slanting ,
slight stretching ,
speedup ,
step -
up ,
story ,
strain ,
straining ,
strengthening ,
stretching ,
style ,
stylistic analysis ,
stylistics ,
superiority ,
surplus ,
tale ,
tall story ,
tall tale ,
tall talk ,
taradiddle ,
the grand style ,
the plain style ,
the sublime ,
tightening ,
too much ,
too -
muchness ,
trick ,
trumped -
up story ,
twisting ,
unconscionableness ,
understatement ,
undueness ,
unreasonableness ,
unrestrainedness ,
untruth ,
vein ,
way ,
white lie ,
yarn
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EXAGGERATION Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of EXAGGERATION is an act or instance of exaggerating something : overstatement of the truth : a statement that exaggerates something How to use exaggeration in a sentence
Exaggeration - Wikipedia Exaggeration is the representation of something as more extreme or dramatic than it is, intentionally or unintentionally It can be a rhetorical device or figure of speech, used to evoke strong feelings or to create a strong impression
EXAGGERATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary EXAGGERATION definition: 1 the fact of making something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is… Learn more
EXAGGERATION Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com Exaggeration definition: the act of exaggerating or overstating See examples of EXAGGERATION used in a sentence
exaggeration noun - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and . . . a statement or description that makes something seem larger, better, worse or more important than it really is; the act of making a statement like this It would be an exaggeration to say I knew her well—I only met her twice It's no exaggeration to say that most students have never read a complete Shakespeare play
EXAGGERATION definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary Exaggeration, or an exaggeration, is the act of saying that something is bigger, worse, or more important than it really is It's not an exaggeration, it's a fact
Exaggeration - definition of exaggeration by The Free Dictionary ex•ag•ger•a•tion (ɪgˌzædʒ əˈreɪ ʃən) n 1 the act of exaggerating or overstating 2 an instance of exaggerating; an overstatement: His version of events is a gross exaggeration