exaggeration

Roget category 549

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
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#549. Exaggeration

noun

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.

verb

exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate — amplify etc. (expand) 194 — overestimate etc. 482 — hyperbolize — overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise — make over much, over the most of — strain, strain over a point — stretch, stretch a point — go great lengths — spin a long yarn — draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow — deal in the marvelous.
out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random.
heighten, overcolor^† — color highly, color too highly — broder^† — flourish — color etc. (misrepresent) 544 — puff etc. (boast) 884.

adjective

exaggerated etc. v. — overwrought — bombastic etc. (grandiloquent) 577 — hyperbolical^†, on stilts — fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre [Fr.], highflying^†.

adverb

hyperbolically etc. adj..

phrase

excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat.] [Cicero].

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