exaggeration
exaggeration is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. No need of an exaggeration of what they saw. I. Taylor.
- 2.(Paint.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- about
- absurd
- absurdity
- absurdness
- abuse
- accession
- accretion
- add
- additional
- ado
- adumbrate
- adumbration
- advance
- aggrandize
- aggrandizement
- aggravate
- aggravating
- aggravation
- ahead
- all
- allegorical
- allegorize
- allegory
- allude
- allusion
- allusive
- alogy
- anagoge
- anagogical
- analogy
- anamorphosis
- and
- anticlimax
- apologue
- application
- apply
- are
- ascend
- ascent
- association
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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