exaggerativeadj.
/ɛɡˈzadʒərətɪv/ 1. Of a statement, representation, etc.: Marked by exaggeration, hyperbolical.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > given to exaggeration
overlashing1578
overreaching1579
hyperbolizinga1620
exaggeratory1759
exaggerative1797
dramatizing1808
exaggerating1817
1797 A. Geddes tr. Bible II. Pref. 8 This exaggerative language warns us not to take words of that kind in a strict theological meaning.
1863 Sat. Rev. Jan. 123 The exaggerative character of these drawings.
1880 J. Hawthorne Ellice Quentin I. 97 Let this confession put the reader on his guard against..exaggerative or prejudicial statements.
2. Of persons: Given to exaggerate; prone to exaggeration.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. iv. 318 ‘Out of doors’, continues the exaggerative man, ‘were mad multitudes dancing round the bonfire.’
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) xxiii. 505 The tender passion is always a strangely exaggerative one.
1870 J. H. Friswell Mod. Men of Lett. 32 Dickens was very often exaggerative and pantomimic.
Derivatives
eˈxaggeratively adv. in an exaggerative manner.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adverb]
egregiously1553
hyperbolically1555
overreachingly1571
hyperbolicly1596
overlashinglya1613
superlativelyc1615
exaggerately1646
theatrically1647
fulsomely1657
fancifully1801
exaggeratedly1854
exaggeratively1856
exaggeratingly1858
over the top1935
1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 365 Exaggeratively exhibiting the defects of the system.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 16 ‘It were better to perish,’ as I exaggeratively said to myself, ‘than continue schoolmastering’.
eˈxaggerativeness n. the quality of being exaggerative.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > quality of
exaggerativeness1873
1873 Spectator 22 Feb. 245/1 A certain exaggerativeness in some of his anecdotes.
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adj.1797