hyperbolicaladj.
/hʌɪpəˈbɒlɪkəl/ 1. † b. gen. Extravagant in character or behaviour; excessive, enormous. Obsolete.
a. Rhetoric. Of the nature of, involving, or using hyperbole; exaggerated, extravagant (in language or expression).
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective]
hyperbolical?a1475
overchargeda1542
magnificate1568
amplified1580
superlative1586
fulsome1602
hyperthetical?1611
hyperbolous1638
hyperbolic1646
bloata1657
exaggerated1725
overshot1774
overstuffed1808
overdrawn1841
fine-drawn1888
steep1895
larger-than-life1937
blown-up1961
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > hyperbolical
hyperbolical?a1475
hyperbolous1638
hyperbolic1646
hypertrophic1874
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 77 Alexander seythe that not to be trawthe, but after a locucion iperbolicalle.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 43 Your infamous, shame~lesse, and reprochfull Hiperbolicall speach.
1581 J. Marbeck Bk. Notes & Common Places 196 An Hiperboricall loquution, of which Chrisostome is full.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 53 He is too hyperbolical in praising his own Countrey.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. iii. 110 A taste for hyperbolical description.
1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 347 It embodies..all the pomp of action in all the vehemence of hyperbolical declamation.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch I. ii. xxii. 402 I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [adjective] > extravagant, excessive
overdoinga1425
ramping1484
egregious1566
desperatea1568
outlandish1588
hyperbolical1589
furious1671
wanton1680
outré1722
steep1856
plush horse1936
the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [adjective] > excessive or too great in amount or degree > excessive in degree
unmeasurablea1398
dismeasurec1400
dismeasurable1477
dismeasured1483
over1494
endlya1513
intolerable1544
wide1574
overloading1576
unconscionable1576
meanless1587
powerable1588
hyperbolical1589
extravagant1598
grievous1632
flagrant1634
exorbitant1648
overbearinga1708
unbalanced1712
well-favoured1746
steep1856
thick1884
ripe1918
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. G2 Being all plunged welnigh in a speachlesse astonishment..Pleusidippus not vsed to such hyperbolical spectators, broke off the silence by calling for his victualls.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. v. 36 These hyperbolicall demands, were..absolutely rejected.
1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 121 This Hyperbolical Fop whom we stand amazed at.
1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. ix. 177 The gardener..was over head and ears in love with her, and had lately made unmistakeable avowals in luscious strawberries and hyperbolical peas.
2. Geometry. = hyperbolic adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [adjective] > of conic section > hyperbolical
hyperbolical1571
hyperbolic1676
hyperboliform1728
1571 T. Digges in L. Digges's Geom. Pract.: Pantometria Pref. sig. T j Conoydall, Parabollical, Hyperbollical and Ellepseycal circumscribed & inscribed bodies.
1669 C. Wren in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 4 961 The Generation of an Hyperbolical Cylindroid demonstrated and the Application thereof for Grinding Hyperbolical Glasses.
1717 J. Douglass in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 535 The Figure of each Beak is truly Hyperbolical.
1822 T. Webster Imison's Elem. Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 359 Either an elliptical conoid or a hyperbolical conoid.
1871 tr. H. Schellen Spectrum Anal. §69. 413 Thus its path may be elliptical, hyperbolical, or parabolical.
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