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