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Making to seem more important than it really is
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overstatement
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. making to seem more important than it really is [syn: exaggeration , magnification ] [ant: understatement ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An exaggeration; a statement in excess of what is reasonable. 2 The tendency to overstate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1803, from over- + statement .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Overstatement \O"ver*state"ment\, n. An exaggerated statement or account.
Usage examples of overstatement.
Twenty-five minutes later, Bucky came downstairs, which might be an overstatement of her active participation in the matter.
While rather an overstatement, the reference serves to illustrate at least the interchange of counterinsurgent information, if not to trace a specific inspiration for the use of the tactic in the Philippines.
It is insisted that eight duels a week--four for each of the two days--is too low an average to draw a calculation from, but I will reckon from that basis, preferring an understatement to an overstatement of the case.
Baley distrusted overstatement and had no liking for the armchair deducer who discovered certainty rather than probability in the workings of logic.
The device of transferring contemporary anomalous states of things to an imaginary world on the Moon, forgotten valleys or the future, in order to subject them to a hard-hearted scrutiny in the disguise of overstatement, is still used in science fiction, but whereas the Moon-and-Forgotten-Valley satires dealt with contemporary problems, the science fiction author of today particularly works with subjects of a social, political or scientific nature that are likely to become topical in the near or foreseeable future.