Understatement

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A disclosure or statement that is less than complete.
  • n. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.
  • n. Restraint in artistic expression.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a disclosure or statement that is less than complete
  • n. restraint or lack of emphasis, especially for ironic effect
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of understating. That which is understated; a statement of less than the full truth.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    statement   
    Cross Reference
    overstatement   
    Hyponym
    meiosis    litotes   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    oversimplification    disparity    travesty    miscalculation    exaggeration    blunder    delineation    brevity    persiflage    cover-up   
     
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