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Hyperbole

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.

n. Deliberate exaggeration.

n. An instance or example of this technique.

n. A hyperbola.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. In rhetoric, an obvious exaggeration; an extravagant statement or assertion not intended to be understood literally.

n. Synonyms See exaggeration.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. extravagant exaggeration

Word Usage

"But if his hyperbole is a little unfair, it's not foolish; it would be far more foolish to underestimate the import of the sublime, the degree to which the fame of those rhapsodes rests on how responsive people are to that aesthetic."

Antonym

meiosis understatement

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

figure trope image figure of speech

Form

hyperbolic

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

exaggeration overstatement

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

exaggeration periphrasis trope allegory declamation