hyperbolicallyadv.
1. In a hyperbolical manner; with hyperbole or exaggeration.
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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
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adverb] > hyperbolically
hyperbolically1555
hyperbolicly1596
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiiij Although..it bee hyperborically wrytten that in the dayes of Salomon golde & syluer were in Hierusalem..as plentiful as stones.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 244 Chrysostom doth hyperbolically amplifie the excellencie of the Ministers office.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God xvi. xxi. 596 Such a multitude as holy writ thought to signifie hyperbolically, by the sands of the earth.
1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1772 220 The northern bards speak hyperbolically of the effect of the blast blown by the mouth of the heroes.
1842 T. De Quincey Cicero in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 18/2 Unless his income were hyperbolically vast.
2. ‘In form of an hyperbola’ (Johnson).
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