different between exaggerate vs hyperbola

English

Etymology

From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”), from ex (“out, up”) + aggerare (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerere, adgerere (“to bring together”), from ad (“to, toward”) +? gerere (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???zæ.d??.?e?t/, /???zæ.d??.?e?t/
• Hyphenation: ex?ag?ger?ate

Verb

exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)

1. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

Synonyms

• big up
• overexaggerate
• overstate
• hyperbolize

Antonyms

• (overstate): belittle, downplay, understate, trivialize

Derived terms

Related terms

• exaggeration

Translations

Further reading

• exaggerate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exaggerate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• exaggerate at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.sa?.?e?ra?.te/, [?ks?ä?????ä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.sad.d??e?ra.te/, [??z?d????????t??]

Verb

exagger?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exagger?

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (huperbol?). Doublet of hyperbole.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: h?pûr'b?l?, IPA^(key): /ha??p?b?l?/

Noun

hyperbola (plural hyperbolas or hyperbolae or hyperbolæ)

1. (geometry) A conic section formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane that intersects the base of the cone and is not tangent to the cone.

Usage notes

• Like many terms that start with a non-silent h but have emphasis on their second syllable, some people precede hyperbola with an, others with a.

Derived terms

• hyperbolic

Translations

See also

• circle
• conic section
• ellipse
• parabola
• unit hyperbola

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???p?rbola]
• Rhymes: -ola

Noun

hyperbola f

1. (geometry) hyperbola
2. hyperbole, overstatement

   Synonym: nadsázka

Further reading

• hyperbola in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• hyperbola in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Finnish

Noun

hyperbola

1. hyperbole (extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device)

Declension