Synonyms for Exaggeration:

• n.

  •
  • idealize,
  • magnify,
  • overstate,
  • exaggerate,
  • talk up,
  • glorify,
  • dignify,
  • inflate,
  • overplay.
  •act (noun)
  • exaggeration.
  •aggravation (noun)
  • intensifications,
  • condition deepening,
  • intensification,
  • sharpenings,
  • inflammation.
  •amplification (noun)
  • ex-tensions,
  • stretchings,
  • ex-tension,
  • boostings,
  • fleshing outs,
  • ex tensions,
  • supplementings,
  • expatiations,
  • uppings,
  • lengthenings,
  • deepenings,
  • ex tension.
  •big talk (noun)
  • selfaggrandizing,
  • fine talks,
  • self-aggrandizings,
  • fancy talks,
  • selfaggrandizings,
  • self aggrandizing,
  • braggings,
  • big-talk,
  • self aggrandizings.
  •blarney (noun)
  • overpraise,
  • soft words,
  • ingratiation,
  • cajolery,
  • overpraises,
  • honey,
  • ingratiations,
  • Cajoleries,
  • a line,
  • eyewashes,
  • eyewash,
  • fawning.
  •boast (noun)
  • pride and joy,
  • heroics.
  •boasting (noun)
  • bombast.
  •bombast (noun)
  • paddeds,
  • stuffeds,
  • tumidities,
  • bombastries,
  • tympanies,
  • altiloquences.
  •communication (noun)
  • hyperbole.
  •distortion (noun)
  • 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.
  •embellishment (noun)
  • 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.
  •exaggeration (noun)
  • aggrandizement,
  • caricature,
  • overestimation,
  • magnification,
  • overstatement,
  • overvaluation,
  • burlesque,
  • overdevelopment.
  •extravagance (noun)
  • 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.
  •exuberance (noun)
  • fulsomenesses,
  • co piousness,
  • co-piousness,
  • super abundance,
  • super abundances,
  • effusivenesses,
  • co-piousnesses,
  • lushnesses,
  • super-abundance,
  • co piousnesses,
  • teemingnesses,
  • super-abundances,
  • luxuriances.
  •false colors (noun)
  • dis guise,
  • dis-guise,
  • pre tense,
  • dis-guises,
  • pre tenses,
  • pre-tense,
  • dis guises,
  • false-colors.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • misrepresentation.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • 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.
  •fish story (noun)
  • trumpedup stories,
  • incredible stories,
  • fish-story,
  • trumpedup story,
  • farfetched stories,
  • trumped up stories,
  • trumped-up stories.
  •flattery (noun)
  • blarney.
  •flight of fancy (noun)
  • 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.
  •gasconade (noun)
  • Fanfaronade.
  •inaccuracy (noun)
  • 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.
  •increase (noun)
  • up turn,
  • upturn,
  • optimization,
  • waxings,
  • maximization,
  • optimizations,
  • step-up.
  •magnification (noun)
  • 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.
  •misrepresentation (noun)
  • farce,
  • parody,
  • spoof,
  • counterfeit,
  • takeoff,
  • fake,
  • cartoon,
  • lampoon,
  • satire.
  •misstatement (noun)
  • mis statements,
  • mis statement,
  • mis-statements.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • 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.
  •overestimation (noun)
  • hyperbola,
  • embroidery,
  • over-appraisal.
  •overstatement (noun)
  • flight,
  • overreaching,
  • making a mountain out of a molehill,
  • play up,
  • much ado about nothing,
  • stretching the truth,
  • hype,
  • tempest in a teapot.
  •tale (noun)
  • de-tractions,
  • cock and bull story,
  • un truism,
  • de traction,
  • un truisms,
  • de-traction,
  • un-truism,
  • untruisms,
  • un-truisms,
  • de tractions.
  •tall tale (noun)
  • tall-tale.
  •travesty (noun)
  • sendups,
  • send ups,
  • send-ups,
  • puton.
  •white lie (noun)
  • 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)
  • speech.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • tall talk,
  • Hyperbolism.
  •
  • mistake.
  •bluster
  • rodomontade.
  •bragging
  • talk.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • 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:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    overstatement, hyperbole.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    magnification, grow-out.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    excess, proportion.

Antonyms for Exaggeration:

• n.

  • overstatement, embellishment
    minimization, shrinkage, understatement, decrease, unembellishment, lessening, compression, reduction, truth.
  • Other antonyms:
    minimizing, belittlement, meiosis, disparagement.

Homophones for Exaggeration:

• exhortation, excretion, excoriation, exordium, exaeretodon, execration, exertion.

Hyponym for Exaggeration:

• n.

  • act
    step-up, increase.
  • communication
    image, trope, figure of speech, figure.