What is another word for exaggerate?
Synonyms for exaggerate
ɪgˈzædʒ əˌreɪtex·ag·ger·ate
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exaggerateverb
Synonyms:
overexaggerateexaggerateverb
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
Synonyms:
overexaggerateAntonyms:
downplay, understate
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
Synonyms:
blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate, magnifyoverdo, exaggerateverb
do something to an excessive degree
"He overdid it last night when he did 100 pushups"
Synonyms:
amplify, hyperbolise, overdraw, overdo, hyperbolize, overstate, magnify
Editors Contribution
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to talk or write about oneself or something related to oneself in a proud or self-admiring way.
''she boasts a host of amazing talents''
Submitted by rosiesusan.kirk on June 15, 2020
Dictionary of English Synonymes
exaggerateverb
Synonyms:
overstate, heighten, amplify, overcharge, strain, stretch, overstrain, caricature, overcolor, depict extravagantly, color too highly
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
exaggerateverb
Synonyms:
overstate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "exaggerate":
overstate, overdo, overestimate, overemphasize, inflate, overact, oversell
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2479 | enlarge | |
#3129 | expand | |
#6612 | strain | |
#29947 | magnify | |
#36507 | amplify | |
#38823 | inflate | |
#46777 | heighten | |
#52027 | exaggerate | |
#58282 | overestimate | |
#73071 | overstate | |
#80648 | overdo | |
#185425 | overemphasize | |
#237497 | overdraw | |
#252359 | oversell |
How to use exaggerate in a sentence?
Things have just come to a head. It's impossible to exaggerate the real fears that people have for their safety and for their lives.
We hear a lot of stories about New York being unsafe, but we feel like people sometimes exaggerate safety issues.
This is someone whos likely to exaggerate the dangerous impulses of the president towardbelligerence, his proclivity to act without thinking, and his love of conspiracy theories, and Ill, you know, just add one data point to what you were talking about earlier, John Bolton once suggested on Fox News that the Russian hack of the DNC [Democratic National Committee] was a false flag operation that had been conducted by the Obama administration.
This is a big ask, but it does not exaggerate the scale of what is needed, it is categorically not enough to just rely on gas from non-Russian sources — these supplies are simply not available in the volumes required to substitute for missing deliveries from Russia.
We did not exaggerate anything. We're not backtracking at all from the 80 %.
Translations for exaggerate
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- بالغArabic
- преувеличавамBulgarian
- exagerarCatalan, Valencian
- přehánětCzech
- overdriveDanish
- übertreibenGerman
- μεγαλοποιώ, παραφουσκώνω, υπερβάλλω, παρακάνωGreek
- exagerarSpanish
- گزاف گفتنPersian
- liioitellaFinnish
- outrer, exagérerFrench
- הגזיםHebrew
- eltúloz, túlozHungarian
- ýkja, yfirdrífaIcelandic
- esagerareItalian
- 誇張Japanese
- გადაჭარბება, გაზვიადებაGeorgian
- 과장하다, 과대시하다Korean
- overdrijvenDutch
- overdriveNorwegian
- przesadzać, wyolbrzymiaćPolish
- exagerarPortuguese
- anchachayQuechua
- exageraRomanian
- утрировать, преувеличить, преувеличиватьRussian
- teproj, zmadhojAlbanian
- överdrivaSwedish
- பெரிதுபடுத்தTamil
- พูดเกินจริงThai
- abartmakTurkish
- tuükönVolapük
- מעגאַזעמ זייַןYiddish
- 誇大Chinese
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