Understatement synonyms
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An act of belittling
less than the truth
An estimate or perception that is too low.
An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
modest statement
restrained statement
litotes
(Rhetoric) A figure of speech in which the speaker emphasizes the magnitude of a statement by denying its opposite; a figure of speech in which understatement is used with negation to express a positive attribute; a form of irony
A distorting or being distorted
avoidance of overemphasis or exaggeration
overstatement (antonym)
An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable.
Find another word for understatement. In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for understatement, like: belittlement, less than the truth, underestimate, oversimplification, modest statement, restrained statement, litotes, restraint, underestimation, distortion and avoidance of overemphasis or exaggeration.