About The Word Hyperbole

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Hyperbole

Hyperbole Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Hyperbole?
[n] extravagant exaggeration
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hyperbole: exaggeration Related Terms | Find terms related to Hyperbole: abandon | abstractionism | aggrandizement | amplification | ballyhoo | big talk | blowing up | boundlessness | burlesque | caricature | coloring | deformation | dilatation | dilation | distortion | egregiousness | embellishment | enhancement | enlargement | enormousness | exaggerating | exaggeration | excess | excessiveness | exorbitance | exorbitancy | expansion | expressionism | extravagance | extravagancy | extreme | extremes | extremism | extremity | fabulousness | false coloring | falsification | garbling | giantism | gigantism | gluttony | grandiloquence | heightening | huckstering | hyperbolism | hypertrophy | immoderacy | immoderateness | immoderation | inaccuracy | incontinence | inflation | injustice | inordinacy | inordinance | inordinateness | intemperance | intemperateness | litotes | magnification | miscoloring | misdrawing | mispainting | misquotation | misreport | misrepresentation | misstatement | misteaching | monstrousness | nimiety | nonrealism | outrageousness | overdevelopment | overdrawing | overemphasis | overestimation | overgreatness | overgrowth | overindulgence | overkill | overlargeness | overmuch | overmuchness | overstatement | perversion | prodigality | profuseness | puffery | puffing up | radicalism | sensationalism | slanting | stretching | superlative | tall talk | too much | too-muchness | touting | travesty | twisting | unconscionableness | understatement | undueness | unreasonableness | unrestrainedness See Also | figure | figure of speech | image | trope Hyperbole In Webster's Dictionary \Hy*per"bo*le\, n. [L., fr. Gr?, prop., an
overshooting, excess, fr. Gr. ? to throw over or beyond;
"ype`r over + ? to throw. See {Hyper-}, {Parable}, and cf.
{Hyperbola}.] (Rhet.)
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.
Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them
extravagant hyperboles. --Blair.
Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric,
the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving.
--Macaulay.
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