hyperbole

Etymology
From, from , from +. .

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: hyperbolae
 * Homophones: hyperbolae
 * Homophones: hyperbolae
 * Homophones: hyperbolae
 * Homophones: hyperbolae

Noun

 * 1)  Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
 * 2) * c. 1910, Theodore Roosevelt, Productive Scholarship
 * Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond.
 * 1)  An instance or example of such overstatement.
 * 2)  A hyperbola.
 * Of course the hymn has come to us from somewhere else, but I do not know from where; and the average native of our village firmly believes that it is indigenous to our own soil—which it can not be, unless it deals in hyperbole, for the nearest approach to a river in our neighborhood is the village pond.
 * 1)  An instance or example of such overstatement.
 * 2)  A hyperbola.
 * 1)  An instance or example of such overstatement.
 * 2)  A hyperbola.
 * 1)  A hyperbola.
 * 1)  A hyperbola.
 * 1)  A hyperbola.

Antonyms

 * See understatement

Translations

 * Afrikaans: hiperbool
 * Arabic:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: hyperbel
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: hiperbolo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ჰიპერბოლა, გაზვიადება, გადამეტება, გადიდება
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑπερβολή
 * Gujarati: અતિશયોક્તિ
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian:, rarely , rarely
 * Irish: urtheilgean, hipearbóil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latin: hyperbole, nimietas, superlatio
 * Maori: kupu whakapehapeha
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: hyperbol
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sawig
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: gormodiaith

Etymology
, from, from +.

Noun

 * 1)  hyperbole
 * 2)  hyperbola

Etymology
From, from +.

Noun

 * 1) exaggeration,