Understatement synonyms
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less than the truth
modest statement
An estimate or perception that is too low.
An act of belittling
An explanation that excludes important information for the sake of brevity, or of making the explanation or presentation easy to understand.
overstatement (related)
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anticlimax (related)
over-statement (related)
exageration (related)
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
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avoidance of overemphasis or exaggeration
under-statement (related)
anti-climax (related)
exaggeration (related)
Find another word for understatement. In this page you can discover 18 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for understatement, like: less than the truth, modest statement, underestimate, underestimation, belittlement, oversimplification, overstatement, anticlimax, , exageration and restrained statement.