Exaggerate Synonyms and Antonyms
ĭg-zăj'ə-rāt'
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Synonyms for Exaggerate
To express with hyperbole.
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
To state in exaggerated terms.
To embroider is defined as to decorate fabric using a needle and thread.
To serve incorrectly or dishonestly as an official representative of.
lay it on with a trowel
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To boast (about) in a showy way
To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify.
To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.
To report incorrectly or falsely
To depict in or as in a caricature
To estimate too highly.
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amplificatory
Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative.
exaggerative
Marked by exaggeration.
To speak or write at length or in detail:
To distort is defined as to change something or shape something in a way that changes it from the truth or from what it should be.
To do, use, or stress to excess; carry (something) too far:
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overcolor
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
carry too far
mythomaniac
Presumptuously arrogant; overbearing:
An imperfect image caused by a physical defect in an optical element, as in a lens.
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A deceptive likeness
Alternative form of hyperbolize.
overcarry
overstudy
Too much study
To misrepresent.
To place too much emphasis on or employ too much emphasis.
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give color to
make too much of
To reach too far
The definition of fabricate is to create or manufacture something.
lay-it-on-thick
(Idiomatic) To exaggerate or overstate a feeling or emotion.
To spread or be spread out to full extent or beyond normal limits
To treat or regard romantically; give a romantic character to or interpretation of
Color charge.
To quote incorrectly.
To fill too full; to crowd.
draw the longbow
sling the bull
make-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill
(Idiomatic) To treat a problem as greater than it is; to blow something out of proportion; to exaggerate the importance of something trivial
make a big deal of
Exceeding reasonable bounds:
Made of or as if of fustian:
The definition of hyperbolic is something that has been exaggerated or enlarged beyond what is reasonable.
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement.
Eccentricity is defined as the state or quality of having an odd or unusual manner.
(Uncountable) Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.
A passion for obtaining and holding great power, authority, etc.
(Sculpting) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
To improve the quality or condition of
To become larger; increase in size, extent, etc.; expand
Malinger is defined as to fake sick or to exaggerate an illness in order to skip school, work or some other undesirable event.
To cause to seem or appear larger than is really so; increase the apparent size of, esp. by means of a lens or lenses
overassess
To assess (a property) as being worth more than its actual value, leading to the imposition of an overly high tax based on the valuation.
overcalculate
To calculate as being greater than is actually the case
To spend more than one can afford
overtrain
To engage in excessive training:
overcount
overesteem
overgo
(Genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
To think or talk about romantic things
Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
To pull back too far:
(Rare) To exaggerate
enlarge on
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages.
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
paint in glowing colors
overexpend
go to extremes
An individual reaction to a drug, food, etc. that is different from the reaction of most people
blow up out of all proportion
Excessive use of some distinctive, often affected, manner or style in art, literature, speech, or behavior
mythomania
A compulsion to embroider the truth, engage in exaggeration, or tell lies.
Antonyms for Exaggerate
To state (a quantity, for example) that is too low:
(Medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
To represent as having the least degree of importance, value, or size:
Depreciate is defined as to decline in value over a period of time, or to reduce the value of assets in accounting records.
Words Related to Exaggerate
over-estimate
under-estimated
under-estimating
over-stated
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
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