- understatement for rhetorical effect, esp when achieved by using negation with a term in place of using an antonym of that term, as in "She was not a little upset" for "She was extremely upset."
| 单词 | litotes |
| 释义 | WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024 li•to•tes (lī′tə tēz′, lit′ə-, lī tō′tēz),USA pronunciation n., pl. -tes. [Rhet.]
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: litotes /ˈlaɪtəʊˌtiːz/ n ( pl -tes)
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