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单词 overstatement
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(oʊvəʳsteɪtmənt)
Word forms: plural overstatements
variable noun
If you refer to the way something is described is an overstatement, you mean it is described in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is.
This may have been an improvement, but 'breakthrough' was an overstatement.
True emotion ought not to require overstatement.
Synonyms: exaggeration, embroidery, hyperbole, magnification More Synonyms of overstatement

Synonyms of 'overstatement'

exaggeration, embroidery, hyperbole, magnification
More Synonyms of overstatement
(noun) 
He may be talented, but `genius' is something of an overstatement.
Synonyms
exaggeration
Like most of his stories, it smacks of exaggeration.
embroidery
hyperbole
The debate was carried on with increasing rhetorical hyperbole.
magnification
the magnification of this character on the screen
embellishment
I lack the story-teller's gift of embellishment.
overvaluation
over-emphasis
overestimation

Additional synonyms

in the sense of embellishment
I lack the story-teller's gift of embellishment.
Synonyms
elaboration,
exaggeration,
embroidery
in the sense of hyperbole
Definition
a deliberate exaggeration of speech or writing used for effect, such as he embraced her a thousand times
The debate was carried on with increasing rhetorical hyperbole.
Synonyms
exaggeration,
hype (informal),
overstatement,
enlargement,
magnification,
amplification
in the sense of magnification
the magnification of this character on the screen
Synonyms
exaggeration,
build-up,
heightening,
deepening,
enhancement,
aggrandizement

Nearby words of
overstatement

  • oversight
  • oversized
  • overstate
  • overstatement
  • overt
  • overtake
  • overthrow

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