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hyperbole 音標拼音: [hɑɪp'ɚbəl ,i] n. 夸張法 誇張法 hyperbole n 1: extravagant exaggeration [ synonym: { hyperbole}, { exaggeration}] Hyperbole \ Hy* per" bo* le\, n. [ L., fr. Gr?, prop., an overshooting, excess, fr. Gr. ? to throw over or beyond; " ype` r over ? to throw. See { Hyper-}, { Parable}, and cf. { Hyperbola}.] ( Rhet.) A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect. [ 1913 Webster] Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles. -- Blair. [ 1913 Webster] Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving. -- Macaulay. Hyperbolic105 Moby Thesaurus words for " hyperbole": abandon, abstractionism, aggrandizement, amplification, ballyhoo, big talk, blowing up, boundlessness, burlesque, caricature, coloring, deformation, dilatation, dilation, distortion, egregiousness, embellishment, enhancement, enlargement, enormousness, exaggerating, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, expansion, expressionism, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, false coloring, falsification, garbling, giantism, gigantism, gluttony, grandiloquence, heightening, huckstering, hyperbolism, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, inaccuracy, incontinence, inflation, injustice, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, intemperance, intemperateness, litotes, magnification, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, monstrousness, nimiety, nonrealism, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overdrawing, overemphasis, overestimation, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overkill, overlargeness, overmuch, overmuchness, overstatement, perversion, prodigality, profuseness, puffery, puffing up, radicalism, sensationalism, slanting, stretching, superlative, tall talk, too much, too- muchness, touting, travesty, twisting, unconscionableness, understatement, undueness, unreasonableness, unrestrainedness
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