Exaggerate synonyms
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Part of speech:
To express with hyperbole.
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
To embroider is defined as to decorate fabric using a needle and thread.
To state in exaggerated terms.
To serve incorrectly or dishonestly as an official representative of.
To raise or increase the quantity or degree of; intensify.
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lay it on with a trowel
To boast (about) in a showy way
To report incorrectly or falsely
To depict in or as in a caricature
To estimate too highly.
understate (antonym)
To state (a quantity, for example) that is too low:
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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 place too much emphasis on or employ too much emphasis.
To produce or compose (a substance, for example) from simpler elements.
make too much of
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lay-it-on-thick
(Idiomatic) To exaggerate or overstate a feeling or emotion.
mythomaniac
Presumptuously arrogant; overbearing:
An imperfect image caused by a physical defect in an optical element, as in a lens.
A deceptive likeness
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blow up out of proportion
To misrepresent.
give color to
reduce (antonym)
(Medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
To cause to seem or appear larger than is really so; increase the apparent size of, esp. by means of a lens or lenses
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To think or talk about romantic things
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 spread or be spread out to full extent or beyond normal limits
stretch-the-truth
(Idiomatic) to exaggerate, often to the point where the truth is obscured or lost.
To treat or regard romantically; give a romantic character to or interpretation of
Color charge.
To do, use, or stress to excess; carry (something) too far:
overcolor
To quote incorrectly.
To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
To fill too full; to crowd.
draw the longbow
sling the bull
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carry too far
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
minimize (antonym)
To represent as having the least degree of importance, value, or size:
Exceeding reasonable bounds:
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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.
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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.
depreciate (antonym)
Depreciate is defined as to decline in value over a period of time, or to reduce the value of assets in accounting records.
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To pull back too far:
Alternative form of hyperbolize.
(Electronics) To increase the strength of (an electrical signal) by means of an amplifier
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
overexpend
To spend more than one can afford
overtrain
To engage in excessive training:
overcarry
overcount
overesteem
overgo
(Genetics) A sequence of overlapping oligonucleotides, used to design hybridization.
overstudy
Too much study
underestimate (related)
downplay (related)
over-estimate (related)
underplay (related)
under-estimated (related)
misunderstand (related)
under-estimating (related)
over-stated (related)
enlarge on
(Intransitive, idiomatic) To accumulate, to pile up, to increase in stages.
To reach too far
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
The definition of fabricate is to create or manufacture something.
paint in glowing colors
blow up out of all proportion
Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
An individual reaction to a drug, food, etc. that is different from the reaction of most people
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.
go to extremes
increase (related)
To cause to become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; add to; augment
Find another word for exaggerate. In this page you can discover 106 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for exaggerate, like: hyperbolize, embellish, embroider, overstate, blow up, misrepresent, heighten, lay it on with a trowel, brag, intensify and misreport.