Meaning of EXAGGERATED
Pronunciation: | | ig'zaju`reytid
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- [adj] enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic style"
- [adj] enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
- [adj] represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an exaggerated opinion of oneself"
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| Synonyms: | | enlarged, hyperbolic, immoderate, increased, inflated, magnified, overdone, overstated |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Ex*ag"ger*a`ted\, a.
Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- {Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly},
adv.
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| Related Terms: | | a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, boundless, disproportionate, egregious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, gigantic, gluttonous, grandiloquent, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overrated, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overvalued, overweening, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, puffed, puffed up, steep, stiff, stretched, superlative, too much, touted, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained |
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