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exaggeration
noun
1 exaggeration
Extravagant exaggeration.
synonym: hyperbole.
Roget 884:
boasting
etc.
v.;
boast,
vaunt,
crake†;
pretense,
pretensions;
puff,
puffery;
flourish,
fanfaronade†;
gasconade;
blague†,
bluff,
gas [Slang];
highfalutin,
highfaluting†;
hot air,
spread-eagleism [U.S.];
brag,
braggardism†;
bravado,
bunkum,
buncombe;
jactitation†,
jactancy†;
bounce;
venditation†,
vaporing,
rodomontade,
bombast,
fine talking,
tall talk,
magniloquence,
teratology†,
heroics;
Chauvinism;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
vanity
etc.
880;
vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.];
much cry and little wool,
brutum fulmen [Lat.].
exultation;
gloriation†,
glorification;
flourish of trumpets;
triumph
etc.
883.
boaster;
braggart,
braggadocio;
Gascon [Fr.],
fanfaron†,
pretender,
soi-disant [Fr.];
blower [U.S.],
bluffer,
Foxy Quiller†;
blusterer
etc.
887;
charlatan,
jack-pudding,
trumpeter;
puppy
etc.
(fop)
854.
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Roget 835:
aggravation,
worsening,
heightening;
exacerbation;
exasperation;
overestimation
etc.
482;
exaggeration
etc.
549.
Roget 555:
misrepresentation,
distortion,
caricatura†,
exaggeration;
daubing
etc.
v.;
bad likeness,
daub,
sign painting;
scratch,
caricature;
anamorphosis†;
burlesque,
falsification,
misstatement;
parody,
lampoon,
take-off,
travesty.
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Roget 549:
exaggeration;
expansion
etc.
194;
hyperbole,
stretch,
strain,
coloring;
high coloring,
caricature,
caricatura†;
extravagance
etc.
(nonsense)
497;
Baron Munchausen;
men in buckram,
yarn,
fringe,
embroidery,
traveler's tale;
fish story,
gooseberry [Slang].
storm in a teacup;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482;
puff,
puffery
etc.
(boasting)
884;
rant
etc.
(turgescence)
577†.
figure of speech,
facon de parler [Fr.];
stretch of fancy,
stretch of the imagination;
flight of fancy
etc.
(imagination)
515.
false coloring
etc.
(falsehood)
544;
aggravation
etc.
835.
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Roget 544:
falsehood,
falseness;
falsity,
falsification;
deception
etc.
545;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
454;
untruth
etc.
546;
guile;
lying
etc.
v..
misrepresentation;
mendacity,
perjury,
false swearing;
forgery,
invention,
fabrication;
subreption†;
covin†.
perversion of truth,
suppression of truth;
suppressio veri [Lat.];
perversion,
distortion,
false coloring;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
prevarication,
equivocation,
shuffling,
fencing,
evasion,
fraud;
suggestio falsi
etc.
(lie)
546 [Lat.];
mystification
etc.
(concealment)
528;
simulation
etc.
(imitation)
19;
dissimulation,
dissembling;
deceit;
blague†.
sham;
pretense,
pretending,
malingering.
lip homage,
lip service;
mouth honor;
hollowness;
mere show,
mere outside;
duplicity,
double dealing,
insincerity,
hypocrisy,
cant,
humbug;
jesuitism,
jesuitry;
pharisaism;
Machiavelism,
organized hypocrisy;"
crocodile tears,
mealy-mouthedness†,
quackery;
charlatanism†,
charlatanry;
gammon;
bun-kum†,
bumcombe,
flam;
bam [Slang],
flimflam,
cajolery,
flattery;
Judas kiss;
perfidy
etc.
(bad faith)
940;
il volto sciolto i pensieri stretti [It].
unfairness
etc.
(dishonesty)
940;
artfulness
etc.
(cunning)
702;
misstatement
etc.
(error)
495.
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Roget 523:
misinterpretation,
misapprehension,
misunderstanding,
misacceptation†,
misconstruction,
misapplication;
catachresis†;
eisegesis†;
cross-reading,
cross-purposes;
mistake
etc.
495.
misrepresentation,
perversion,
exaggeration
etc.
549;
false coloring,
false construction;
abuse of terms;
parody,
travesty;
falsification
etc.
(lying)
544.
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Roget 521:
figure of speech;
facon de parler [Fr.],
way of speaking,
colloquialism.
phrase
etc.
566;
figure,
trope,
metaphor,
enallage†,
catachresis†;
metonymy [Gramm.],
synecdoche [Sem.];
autonomasia†,
irony,
figurativeness
etc.
adj.;
image,
imagery;
metalepsis†,
type,
anagoge†,
simile,
personification,
prosopopoeia†,
allegory,
apologue†,
parable,
fable;
allusion,
adumbration;
application.
exaggeration,
hyperbole
etc.
549.
association,
association of ideas
(analogy)
514.1
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Roget 497:
absurdity,
absurdness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility
etc.
499;
alogy†,
nonsense,
utter nonsense;
paradox,
inconsistency;
stultiloquy†,
stultiloquence†;
nugacity†.
blunder,
muddle,
bull;
Irishism†,
Hibernicism†;
slipslop†;
anticlimax,
bathos;
sophism
etc.
477.
farce,
galimathias†,
amphigouri†,
rhapsody;
farrago
etc.
(disorder)
59;
betise [Fr.];
extravagance,
romance;
sciamachy†.
sell,
pun,
verbal quibble,
macaronic†.
jargon,
fustian,
twaddle,
gibberish
etc.
(no meaning)
517;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
moonshine,
stuff;
mare's nest,
quibble,
self-delusion.
vagary,
tomfoolery,
poppycock,
mummery,
monkey trick,
boutade [Fr.],
escapade.
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Roget 482:
overestimation
etc.
v.;
exaggeration
etc.
549;
vanity
etc.
880;
optimism,
pessimism,
pessimist.
much cry and little wool,
much ado about nothing;
storm in a teacup,
tempest in a teacup;
fine talking.
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Roget 546:
untruth,
falsehood,
lie,
story,
thing that is not,
fib,
bounce,
crammer,
taradiddle†,
whopper;
jhuth†.
forgery,
fabrication,
invention;
misstatement,
misrepresentation;
perversion,
falsification,
gloss,
suggestio falsi [Lat.];
exaggeration
etc.
549.
invention,
fabrication,
fiction;
fable,
nursery tale;
romance
etc.
(imagination)
515;
absurd story,
untrue story,
false story,
trumped up story,
trumped up statement;
thing devised by the enemy;
canard;
shave,
sell,
hum,
traveler's tale,
Canterbury tale,
cock and bull story,
fairy tale,
fake;
claptrap.
press agent's yarn;
puff,
puffery
(exaggeration)
549.
myth,
moonshine,
bosh,
all my eye and Betty Martin,
mare's nest,
farce.
irony;
half truth,
white lie,
pious fraud;
mental reservation
etc.
(concealment)
528.
pretense,
pretext;
false plea
etc.
617;
subterfuge,
evasion,
shift,
shuffle,
make-believe;
sham
etc.
(deception)
545.
profession,
empty words;
Judas kiss
etc.
(hypocrisy)
544;
disguise
etc.
(mask)
530.
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Dutch: hyperbool
Polish: hiperbola, przesadnia
2 exaggeration
The act of making something more noticeable than usual.
Dutch: overdrijving
Polish: przesada, przesadność, egzageracja, nadmierność
3 exaggeration
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