Exaggeration


Synonyms for exaggeration
noun overstatement, embellishment

falsehood
excess
fantasy
untruth
baloney
misjudgment
misrepresentation
fabrication
hyperbole
caricature

fancy
pretension
aggrandizement
coloring
boasting
stretch
magnification
romance
emphasis
embroidery

whopper
elaboration
exaltation
jazz
extravagance
enlargement
amplification
line
hogwash
crock

rant
yarn
pretentiousness
inflation
figure of speech
fish story
flight of fancy
overemphasis
overestimation
tall story

Antonyms for exaggeration

compression
decrease
lessening

shrinkage
minimization
reduction

truth
understatement
unembellishment

Concept Thesaurus for word exaggeration
Synonyms – noun

exaggeration
strain
caricatura
yarn
fish story
puff, puffery (boasting)
stretch of fancy
aggravation

expansion
coloring
extravagance (nonsense)
fringe
gooseberry.
rant (turgescence)
stretch of the imagination

hyperbole
high coloring
Baron Munchausen
embroidery
storm in a teacup
figure of speech
flight of fancy (imagination)

stretch
caricature
men in buckram
traveler’s tale
much ado about nothing (overestimation)
facon de parler
false coloring (falsehood)

Synonyms – verbs

exaggerate
amplify (expand)
overstate
overpraise
strain over a point
spin a long yarn
out-Herod Herod
overcolor
flourish

magnify
overestimate
overdraw
make over much
stretch
draw with a longbow
run riot
color highly
color (misrepresent)

pile up
hyperbolize
overlay
over the most of
stretch a point
shoot with a longbow
talk at random.
color too highly
puff (boast)

aggravate
overcharge
overshoot the mark
strain
go great lengths
deal in the marvelous.
heighten
broder

Synonyms – adjectives

exaggerated
on stilts
egregious

overwrought
fabulous
outre

bombastic (grandiloquent)
extravagant
highflying.

hyperbolical
preposterous

Synonyms – phrases
excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Cicero].
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Other adjectives related to exaggeration

bombastic
fabulous
preposterous

egregious
high
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

exaggerated
on stilts

extravagant
overwrought

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