understatement


to state to weakly, or without emphasis
to say george w. bush is a bad president would be an understatement

1. expressing with restraint or lack of emphasis, usually used for an ironic’ or rhetorical effect.

2.basically a figure of speech that writers use to subtly make a situation less important or serious than it really is.
saying “we’ve had a little rain,” when the neighborhood is flooded. now that is an understatement.

the last line of frost’s “birches” ill-strates understatement: “one could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
to say that such phrase or sentence is not well defined and/or weak in its own definition
person a: i think richard simmons is gay.

person b: that’s an understatement.

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