overstatement

Noun

Meaning

An exaggerated statement or account.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

exaggeration magnification hyperbole increase expansion inflation excess stretch distortion metaphor decoration amplification enhancement coloring fancy
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Antonyms

understatement economy decrease perspective abstract compress
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Hypernyms

deception deceit misrepresentation

Examples

The chief error in philosophy is overstatement. Alfred North Whitehead

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. Robert Oppenheimer

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement. Fred Allen

An aphorism can contain only as much wisdom as overstatement will permit. Clifton Fadiman

Those of you who have spent time with Australians know that we are not given to overstatement. By nature we are laconic speakers and by conviction we are realistic thinkers. Julia Gillard

It has been asserted - and this is no overstatement - that whereas other sciences draw their conclusions from what we know, the science of probability derives its most important results from what we do not know. Richard von Mises

Close letter words and terms

overstated overstatedness overstately overstater overstay overstay one's welcome