Exaggeration
[ɪg,zædʒə'reɪʃ(ə)n] or [ɪɡ,zædʒə'reʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of making something more noticeable than usual; 'the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness'.
(noun.) making to seem more important than it really is.
Editor: Zeke--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of heaping or piling up.
(n.) The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.
(n.) A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.
Editor: Ramon
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hyperbole, rant, caricature, extravagant statement, high coloring.
Checked by Alma
Examples
- Laura was certainly not chargeable with any exaggeration, in writing me word that I should hardly recognise her aunt again when we met. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And this is God's truth, without one word of suppression or exaggeration, as fifty people, both in this place and out of it, very well know. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His manner had no air of study or exaggeration. Jane Austen. Emma.
- If it were any one but me who said so, you might think it exaggeration. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I found my poor girl, there is no exaggeration in the expression, wild with grief and dread. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When I came to examine the treaty I saw at once that it was of such importance that my uncle had been guilty of no exaggeration in what he had said. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- It is no exaggeration to say that Edison was greeted with the enthusiastic homage of the whole French people. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It looks like an exaggeration or as if the typesetter had slipped in several extra ciphers by mistake, does it not? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Yes, I said, and the exaggeration may be set down to you; for you made me utter my fancies. Plato. The Republic.
- There is no word of exaggeration in this. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In the same spirit of exaggeration she had, on the event of her separation from Raymond, caused it to be entirely neglected. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Perhaps that is a slight exaggeration--we did gloss over a few centuries in the Middle Ages. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He would reprove you for speaking with exaggeration. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And if from a speculative angle the Marxian tradition has shaded too heavily the economic facts, it was at least a plausible and practical exaggeration. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Of course this was an exaggeration. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This last story and many such stories may be lies or distortions or exaggerations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His reputation as a scientist, indeed, is smirched by the newspaper exaggerations, and no doubt he will be more careful in future. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The pictures used to seem exaggerations--they seemed too weird and fanciful for reality. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Editor: Tess