What is another word for exaggeration?
709 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɛɡzˌad͡ʒəɹˈe͡ɪʃən], [ ɛɡzˌadʒəɹˈeɪʃən], [ ɛ_ɡ_z_ˌa_dʒ_ə_ɹ_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]
Exaggeration is a literary device used by writers and speakers to make a point by over-emphasizing a situation, event or detail. There are a number of synonyms for exaggeration, including hyperbole, overstatement, embellishment, and inflation. Hyperbole refers to an exaggerated statement or claim that is not meant to be taken literally. Overstatement is a similar term but typically refers to an exaggeration of importance or magnitude. Embellishment can be used to refer to dramatic license or the addition of untruthful or exaggerated elements to a story. Inflation, on the other hand, refers to the magnification of statistics or other data without proper context.
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Similar words for exaggeration:
- act (noun)
- aggravation (noun)
- amplification (noun)
- big talk (noun)
- blarney (noun)
- boast (noun)
- bombast (noun)
- communication (noun)
- distortion (noun)
- embellishment (noun)
- exaggeration (noun)
- extravagance (noun)
- exuberance (noun)
- false colors (noun)
- falsehood (noun)
- figure of speech (noun)
- fish story (noun)
- flight of fancy (noun)
- inaccuracy (noun)
- increase (noun)
- magnification (noun)
- misrepresentation (noun)
- misstatement (noun)
- overestimation (noun)
- tale (noun)
- tall tale (noun)
- travesty (noun)
- white lie (noun)
Synonyms for Exaggeration:
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n.
• act • aggravation • amplification- boostings ,
- deepenings ,
- ex tension ,
- ex tensions ,
- ex-tension ,
- ex-tensions ,
- expatiations ,
- fleshing outs ,
- lengthenings ,
- stretchings ,
- supplementings ,
- uppings .
- big-talk ,
- braggings ,
- fancy talks ,
- fine talks ,
- self aggrandizing ,
- self aggrandizings ,
- self-aggrandizings ,
- selfaggrandizing ,
- selfaggrandizings .
- Cajoleries ,
- a line ,
- cajolery ,
- eyewash ,
- eyewashes ,
- fawning ,
- honey ,
- ingratiation ,
- ingratiations ,
- overpraise ,
- overpraises ,
- soft words .
- co loring ,
- co lorings ,
- co-loring ,
- co-lorings ,
- in torsion ,
- in torsions ,
- in-torsion ,
- in-torsions ,
- intorsions ,
- malconformations ,
- mis interpretation ,
- mis interpretations ,
- mis shape ,
- mis shapes ,
- mis-interpretation ,
- mis-interpretations ,
- mis-shape ,
- mis-shapes ,
- tall stories ,
- twistednesses .
- embroiderings ,
- fandangles ,
- floridities ,
- flowery speeches ,
- froufrous ,
- hyper bole ,
- hyper boles ,
- hyper-bole ,
- hyper-boles ,
- icing cake ,
- icing on cake ,
- icing the cake ,
- over statement ,
- over statements ,
- over-statement ,
- over-statements .
- aggrandizement ,
- burlesque ,
- caricature ,
- overdevelopment ,
- overestimation ,
- overstatement ,
- overvaluation .
- ex cess ,
- ex-cess ,
- ex-cesses ,
- immoderations ,
- over doing ,
- over doings ,
- over indulgence ,
- over indulgences ,
- over spending ,
- over-doing ,
- over-doings ,
- over-indulgences ,
- over-spending ,
- overdoings ,
- overspendings ,
- pro fusion ,
- pro fusions ,
- pro-fusion ,
- pro-fusions ,
- squanderings ,
- un reasonableness ,
- un reasonablenesses ,
- un restraint ,
- un restraints ,
- un thrift ,
- un thrifts ,
- un-reasonableness ,
- un-reasonablenesses ,
- un-restraint ,
- un-restraints ,
- un-thrift ,
- un-thrifts ,
- unthrifts ,
- wildnesses .
- co piousness ,
- co piousnesses ,
- co-piousness ,
- co-piousnesses ,
- effusivenesses ,
- fulsomenesses ,
- lushnesses ,
- luxuriances ,
- super abundance ,
- super abundances ,
- super-abundance ,
- super-abundances ,
- teemingnesses .
- Asyndeton ,
- Ellipses ,
- Tropology ,
- adumbration ,
- alliteration ,
- alliterations ,
- anaphora ,
- antistrophe ,
- aposiopesis ,
- apostrophe ,
- apostrophes ,
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device ,
- echoism ,
- ellipsis ,
- malapropism ,
- malapropisms ,
- metonymies ,
- metonymy ,
- onomatopoeia ,
- onomatopoeias ,
- oxymora ,
- oxymoron ,
- proteron ,
- synecdoche ,
- tropes ,
- turn of phrase ,
- way of speaking .
- farfetched stories ,
- fish-story ,
- incredible stories ,
- trumped up stories ,
- trumped-up stories ,
- trumpedup stories ,
- trumpedup story .
- creation brain ,
- creation of brain ,
- creation the brain ,
- facon de parlers ,
- flight fancy ,
- flight-fancy ,
- fumes fancy ,
- mind eye ,
- minds eye ,
- play fancy ,
- stretch fancy ,
- stretch imagination ,
- stretch of imagination ,
- stretch the imagination .
- in accuracies ,
- in accuracy ,
- in correctness ,
- in correctnesses ,
- in exactness ,
- in exactnesses ,
- in-accuracies ,
- in-accuracy ,
- in-correctness ,
- in-correctnesses ,
- in-exactness ,
- in-exactnesses ,
- inexactnesses ,
- mis calculation ,
- mis calculations ,
- mis take ,
- mis takes ,
- mis-calculation ,
- mis-calculations ,
- mis-take ,
- mis-takes ,
- un faithfulness ,
- un faithfulnesses ,
- un reliabilities ,
- un reliability ,
- un-faithfulness ,
- un-faithfulnesses ,
- un-reliabilities ,
- un-reliability ,
- unreliabilities .
- big hands ,
- cheerings ,
- good words ,
- pat back ,
- pat the back ,
- re cognition ,
- re cognitions ,
- re commendation ,
- re commendations ,
- re gards ,
- re-cognition ,
- re-commendation ,
- re-commendations ,
- re-gard .
- cock and bull story ,
- de traction ,
- de tractions ,
- de-traction ,
- de-tractions ,
- un truism ,
- un truisms ,
- un-truism ,
- un-truisms ,
- untruisms .
- half-truths ,
- halftruth ,
- halftruths ,
- harmless untruths ,
- little white lies ,
- mental dishonesties ,
- near truths ,
- partial truths ,
- slight stretches ,
- suggestio falses ,
- trivial untruths ,
- well intentioned untruth ,
- well intentioned untruths ,
- well-intentioned untruths ,
- wellintentioned untruth ,
- wellintentioned untruths ,
- white-lie .
Other synonyms:
Other relevant words:
- talk .
- Blague ,
- Braggardism ,
- Egregiousness ,
- Exaggerating ,
- Exorbitancy ,
- Extravagancy ,
- Fanfaronade ,
- Flam ,
- Garbling ,
- Huckstering ,
- Immoderacy ,
- Inordinacy ,
- Jactancy ,
- Misjudgment ,
- Misreport ,
- Misteaching ,
- Monstrousness ,
- Overdrawing ,
- Overgreatness ,
- Overlargeness ,
- Overrunning ,
- Population Explosion ,
- Puffery ,
- Self-delusion ,
- Undueness ,
- Venditation ,
- abandon ,
- aberration ,
- abstractionism ,
- abuse of terms ,
- accelerando ,
- acceleration ,
- accession ,
- accretion ,
- affectation ,
- aggrandisement ,
- amplification ,
- anamorphosis ,
- ascent ,
- augmentation ,
- bad likeness ,
- balderdash ,
- ballyhoo ,
- baloney ,
- beefing up ,
- big talk ,
- blarney ,
- blowing up ,
- blowup ,
- bluff ,
- boast ,
- boastfulness ,
- boasting ,
- bombast ,
- bounce ,
- boundlessness ,
- brag ,
- bragging ,
- bravado ,
- bull ,
- buncombe ,
- bunkum ,
- canard ,
- cock-and-bull story ,
- coloring ,
- colouring ,
- command of language ,
- concealment ,
- concentration ,
- concoction ,
- condensation ,
- confabulation ,
- consolidation ,
- crake ,
- crock ,
- daub ,
- daubing ,
- deceit ,
- deepening ,
- deformation ,
- development ,
- dilatation ,
- dilation ,
- dispersion ,
- dissembling ,
- dissimulation ,
- elaboration ,
- emphasis ,
- empty talk ,
- enhancement ,
- enlargement ,
- enormousness ,
- equivocation ,
- evasion ,
- exacerbation ,
- exaggerate ,
- exaggerated ,
- exaltation ,
- exasperation ,
- excess ,
- excessiveness ,
- exorbitance ,
- expansion ,
- explosion ,
- expressionism ,
- extension ,
- extravagance ,
- extravaganza ,
- extreme ,
- extremes ,
- extremism ,
- extremity ,
- exuberance ,
- fabrication ,
- fabulousness ,
- fairy tale ,
- fallacy ,
- false colors ,
- false swearing ,
- falsehood ,
- falsification ,
- falsifying ,
- falsity ,
- fancy ,
- fantasy ,
- farfetched story ,
- farrago ,
- fashion ,
- fencing ,
- fib ,
- fiction ,
- figure ,
- figure of speech ,
- fish story ,
- flight of fancy ,
- flimflam ,
- flood tide ,
- flourish ,
- forgery ,
- fraud ,
- frill ,
- fustian ,
- gain ,
- garnish ,
- gas ,
- gasconade ,
- ghost story ,
- giantism ,
- gibberish ,
- gigantism ,
- gilding ,
- gloss ,
- gluttony ,
- grandiloquence ,
- growth ,
- half-truth ,
- heightening ,
- heroics ,
- highfalutin ,
- highfaluting ,
- hogwash ,
- hot air ,
- hypertrophy ,
- image ,
- imagination ,
- imitation ,
- immoderateness ,
- immoderation ,
- inaccuracy ,
- incontinence ,
- increase ,
- increment ,
- inflation ,
- information explosion ,
- injustice ,
- inordinateness ,
- intemperance ,
- intemperateness ,
- intensification ,
- inundation ,
- invention ,
- irony ,
- jactitation ,
- jargon ,
- jazz ,
- legal fiction ,
- lie ,
- line ,
- literary style ,
- litotes ,
- little white lie ,
- lying ,
- magnification ,
- magniloquence ,
- manner ,
- manner of speaking ,
- mannerism ,
- mendacity ,
- miscoloring ,
- misconstruction ,
- misquotation ,
- misstatement ,
- mockery ,
- mode ,
- mode of expression ,
- moonshine ,
- mystification ,
- nimiety ,
- nonsense ,
- optimism ,
- outrageousness ,
- overappraisal ,
- overemphasis ,
- overestimate ,
- overflowing ,
- overgrowth ,
- overindulgence ,
- overkill ,
- overmuch ,
- overmuchness ,
- overpass ,
- overrating ,
- overreaction ,
- overreckoning ,
- overrun ,
- overspreading ,
- peculiarity ,
- perjury ,
- perversion ,
- pessimism ,
- pessimist ,
- pickup ,
- pretense ,
- pretension ,
- pretensions ,
- pretentiousness ,
- prevarication ,
- prodigality ,
- produce ,
- product ,
- profit ,
- profligacy ,
- puff ,
- quibble ,
- radicalism ,
- rant ,
- redoubling ,
- reinforcement ,
- rhetoric ,
- ridicule ,
- rise ,
- romance ,
- romanticization ,
- sarcasm ,
- scratch ,
- sensationalism ,
- shaggy dog story ,
- shuffling ,
- simulation ,
- slanting ,
- speedup ,
- spoofing ,
- spread ,
- step-up ,
- story ,
- strain ,
- straining ,
- strengthening ,
- stretch ,
- stretching ,
- stuff ,
- style ,
- stylistics ,
- suggestio falsi ,
- superiority ,
- superlative ,
- suppressio veri ,
- surplus ,
- take off ,
- tall story ,
- tall tale ,
- taradiddle ,
- teratology ,
- tightening ,
- tinsel ,
- too much ,
- trick ,
- trope ,
- twaddle ,
- twisting ,
- unconscionableness ,
- unreasonableness ,
- unrestrainedness ,
- untruth ,
- vanity ,
- vaporing ,
- vaunt ,
- vein ,
- vulgarization ,
- way ,
- white lie ,
- whopper ,
- worsening ,
- yarn .
- flight ,
- hype ,
- making a mountain out of a molehill ,
- much ado about nothing ,
- overreaching ,
- play up ,
- stretch of the imagination ,
- stretching the truth ,
- tempest in a teapot .
- Altiloquence ,
- BSS ,
- Bombastry ,
- Bravoes ,
- Floridity ,
- Froufrou ,
- Intorsion ,
- Malconformation ,
- Rhapsodies ,
- Tympany ,
- Unthrift ,
- Untruism ,
- big hand ,
- bravo ,
- bravos ,
- chestnut ,
- chestnuts ,
- clothesline ,
- clotheslines ,
- corrigenda ,
- corrigendum ,
- creation of the brain ,
- distortion ,
- effusiveness ,
- embellishment ,
- enrichment ,
- expatiation ,
- facon de parler ,
- fancy talk ,
- fandangle ,
- fine talk ,
- fleshing out ,
- flowery speech ,
- fulsomeness ,
- fumes of fancy ,
- fustians ,
- gildings ,
- gingerbread ,
- gingerbreads ,
- good word ,
- half truth ,
- half truths ,
- harmless untruth ,
- howler ,
- howlers ,
- icing on the cake ,
- imprecision ,
- imprecisions ,
- incorrectness ,
- incredible story ,
- inexactness ,
- jive ,
- jives ,
- lushness ,
- luxuriance ,
- mental dishonesty ,
- mis-statement ,
- mutilation ,
- mutilations ,
- near truth ,
- over-indulgence ,
- overspending ,
- panegyrics ,
- partial truth ,
- play of fancy ,
- raisings ,
- recklessness ,
- rhapsody ,
- self-aggrandizing ,
- send up ,
- send-up ,
- sendup ,
- slight stretch ,
- stretch of fancy ,
- sycophancies ,
- sycophancy ,
- teemingness ,
- travesty ,
- trivial untruth ,
- trumped up story ,
- trumped-up story ,
- tumidity ,
- twistedness ,
- typo ,
- typos ,
- unreliability ,
- wastefulness ,
- well-intentioned untruth ,
- widenings ,
- wildness .
How to use "Exaggeration" in context?
Exaggeration is the act of exaggeratedly describing a particular event or situation. The exaggerated description can be intentional or unintentional. It can be used to make a story or message more interesting or entertaining. Exaggeration can also be a way to show emphasis or to convey anger or frustration. Exaggeration can be used to make a joke or to emphasize a point.
Paraphrases for Exaggeration:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
hyperbole, overstatement.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
magnification, grow-out.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
excess, proportion.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Exaggeration:
Hyponym for Exaggeration:
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