Exaggeration

What do we mean by exaggeration?

The act of heaping or piling up.

The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

A ridiculous story told by liars, nobody ever belives them and only the liars are stupid enough to think that people acctually do Urban Dictionary

Magnify beyond truth, or to make something seem larger,better,worse or more important than it really is or needs to be Urban Dictionary

Someone who is known for exaggerating way too much. Urban Dictionary

A word that my father believes doesn't exist. Some what close to exaggeration. (truly it doesn't exist ...) Urban Dictionary

Completely blown way the fuck out of proportion so someone seems much cooler than they actually are. Urban Dictionary

A distinct characteristic only found within black teens, typically displayed when leaping off of rooftops and flipping backwards to face the camera before falling into a head first dive. Urban Dictionary

When some one turns a story they heard into the most dirty thing ever basically adding a bunch of curse words to a sentence making it somewhat more interesting Urban Dictionary

A dramasode that has escalated into levels you cannot comprehend. A state of which that said dramasode has achieved to the point where you don't want to care, you don't want to know, and you don't want to be involved anymore with the people who triggered it. For a dramasode to reach this point, it has to last for a long time, two parties or multiple parties just not willing to let things die, and those same parties acting at their most immature. Just when you think a dramasode has died, it picks right back up. Urban Dictionary

The number you typically use to exaggerate a situation or scenario. Although there are many numbers to choose from, you tend to stick to your own exagger-number. Urban Dictionary

When your professor draws an extra distinction where one barely exists or none exists in an effort to prove to you their superior understanding of the material. Typically used on examples and counterexamples brought up by the class. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to exaggeration:
exaggeration, exasperation, exaggerating, aggeration, exaggerative, exauguration, exaggerator, exaggerations.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word exaggeration:
hyperbole, grotesque, caricature, fabrication, exaggerated, distortion, say, humor, facts, everywhere, humorous, propaganda, excessive, certainly, truth, hypothesis, personality, massacre, describe, suggest, estimates, indeed, extreme, emphasis, vertical, reality, historian, readers, regard, actual, extent, true, occasion.

Words that rhyme with exaggeration:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe exaggeration:
gross, slight, much, great, little, vertical, rhetorical, wild, considerable, obvious, humorous, pardonable, mere, comic, grotesque, deliberate, usual, absurd, poetic, extreme, very, slightest, characteristic, possible, poetical, romantic, least, undue, ridiculous, conscious, fantastic, oriental, monstrous, enormous, evident, typical, extravagant, dramatic, less, wilful, intentional, playful, morbid, excessive, manifest, ludicrous, picturesque, marked, mild, apparent, violent, occasional, habitual, vast, unconscious, sentimental, hysterical, emotional, pathological, fanciful, palpable, over, satirical, theatrical, customary, literary, sided, passionate, pious, noxious, outrageous, melodramatic, ironic, sheer, verbal, artistic, childish, probable, malicious, imaginative, foolish, journalistic, immense.

Words that sound like exaggeration:
exaggeration, exaggerations, exaggerating, exhilaration, exoneration, exacerbation, exaggerate, exaggerated, exertion, exhortation, exaction, exaggerates, exaggerator, ignoration, exudation, desaturation, exaptation.