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understatement
English
Etymology
under- +? statement
Noun
understatement (usually uncountable, plural understatements)
- (uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
- Synonym: meiosis
- Antonym: hyperbole
- Hyponym: litotes
- (countable) An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.
- Hyponym: laconism
- An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
Related terms
- understate
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English understatement.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n.d?(r)?ste?t.m?nt/ (the realisation may approximate English pronunciation: /?r/ will often be realised as [?] or [?])
- Hyphenation: un?der?state?ment
Noun
understatement n (plural understatements)
- understatement
Synonyms
- parabool
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English understatement.
Noun
understatement m (invariable)
- understatement
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hyperbole
English
Etymology
From Latin hyperbol?, from Ancient Greek ???????? (huperbol?, “excess, exaggeration”), from ???? (hupér, “above”) + ????? (báll?, “I throw”). Doublet of hyperbola.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ha??p??b?li/
- Homophones: hyperbolae
Noun
hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)
- (uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
- 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Legends of the Province House
- The great staircase, however, may be termed, without much hyperbole, a feature of grandeur and magnificence.
- 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.
- 1987, Donald Trump, Tony Schwartz, The Art of the Deal, p. 58.
- The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. ..People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular. I call it truthful hyperbole. It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion.
- 2001, Tom Bentley, Daniel Stedman Jones, The Moral Universe
- The perennial problem, especially for the BBC, has been to reconcile the hyperbole-driven agenda of newspapers with the requirement of balance, which is crucial to the public service remit.
- 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Legends of the Province House
- (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
- 1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Gates of Somnauth
- The honourable gentleman forces us to hear a good deal of this detestable rhetoric; and then he asks why, if the secretaries of the Nizam and the King of Oude use all these tropes and hyperboles, Lord Ellenborough should not indulge in the same sort of eloquence?
- 1843, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Gates of Somnauth
- (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
Synonyms
- (rhetoric): overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis
Antonyms
- (rhetoric): See understatement
Derived terms
- hyperbolic
Related terms
- hyperbola
Translations
See also
- adynaton
French
Etymology
From Latin hyperbole, from Ancient Greek ???????? (huperbol?, “excess, exaggeration”), from ??? (hupé, “above”) + ????? (báll?, “I throw”).
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /i.p??.b?l/
- Homophone: hyperboles
- Hyphenation: hy?per?bole
Noun
hyperbole f (plural hyperboles)
- (rhetoric) hyperbole
- (geometry) hyperbola
Related terms
- hyperbolique
Descendants
- ? Turkish: hiperbol
Further reading
- “hyperbole” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (huperbol?, “excess, exaggeration”), from ??? (hupé, “above”) + ????? (báll?, “I throw”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hy?per.bo.le?/, [h??p?rb???e?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i?per.bo.le/, [i?p?rb?l?]
Noun
hyperbol? f (genitive hyperbol?s); first declension
- exaggeration; hyperbole
- ablative singular of hyperbol?
- vocative singular of hyperbol?
Declension
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
References
- hyperbole in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- hyperbole in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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