Another word for exaggerated
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Modifier
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- Excessively.
- (informal) Amusing; entertaining.
- A quantity which is excessive to the point of being inappropriate, harmful, or overwhelming.
- Exceptionally large:
- Used as an intensive:
- Not compatible with reality or fact; unreasonably idealistic:
- simple past tense and past participle of stylize
- made to conform to some style
- represented according to some convention, rather than in a realistic or literal manner
- Spoken; voiced.
- Strongly marked; distinct:
- Shining intensely and blindingly:
- Tastelessly showy or bright; garish:
- Conspicuous; obvious:
- Made by humans, especially in imitation of something natural:
- Not arising from natural or necessary causes; contrived or arbitrary:
- Affected or insincere:
- Having been passed through a strainer:
- Done with or marked by excessive effort; forced:
- Extended beyond proper limits:
- simple past tense and past participle of fabricate
- constructed or assembled
- false in the sense of made-up, constructed
- simple past tense and past participle of embellish
- simple past tense and past participle of embroider
- simple past tense and past participle of distort
- Contrary to fact or truth:
- Deliberately untrue:
- Arising from mistaken ideas:
- Exceeding a normal, usual, reasonable, or proper limit.
- simple past tense and past participle of overcharge
- Exceedingly lofty or exalted:
- Highly pretentious or inflated:
- Based on or existing only in fantasy; unreal:
- Strange or fanciful in form, conception, or appearance:
- Unrealistic; irrational:
- past participle of blow up
- Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama:
- Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental; histrionic:
- Characterized by false pathos and sentiment.
- Of the nature of a spectacle; impressive or sensational.
- Something that is spectacular, as an elaborate show or display.
- Of or relating to sensation.
- Arousing or intended to arouse strong curiosity, interest, or reaction, especially by exaggerated or lurid details:
- Outstanding; spectacular:
- Extremely pleasing or successful:
- Barely credible; astonishing:
- Of the nature of a fable or myth; legendary.
- Incapable of having existence or of occurring.
- Not capable of being accomplished:
- Unacceptable; intolerable:
- Contrary to nature, reason, or common sense; absurd.
- past participle of overdraw
- Excessive, exaggerated, or overdone:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic:
- Of, relating to, or employing hyperbole.
- Of, relating to, or having the form of a hyperbola.
- Of or relating to a geometric system in which two or more lines can be drawn through any point in a plane and not intersect a given line in the plane.
- Exceeding reasonable bounds:
- Unreasonably high in cost; exorbitant:
- Lavish or imprudent in spending money:
- Filled or expanded by or as if by gas or air.
- Unduly enlarged or aggrandized; swollen:
- Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic.
- Having been overstated; exaggerated; stated, displayed, or presented too grandly or prominently.
- simple past tense and past participle of overstate
- Excessively nervous or excited; agitated.
- Extremely elaborate or ornate; overdone:
- Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
- simple past tense and past participle of magnify
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