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Antonyms for hyper bole
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hahy-pur-buh-lee |
| Phonetic Transcription : haɪˈpɜr bə li |
Definition of hyper bole
Origin :- early 15c., from Latin hyperbole, from Greek hyperbole "exaggeration, extravagance," related to hyperballein "to throw over or beyond," from hyper- "beyond" + bole "a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam," from bol-, nominative stem of ballein "to throw" (see ballistics). Rhetorical sense is found in Aristotle and Isocrates.
- As in lie : noun untruth
- As in rhetoric : noun wordiness; long speech
- As in sensationalism : noun exaggeration
- As in overstatement : noun exaggeration
- As in inveracity : noun lie
- As in tall talk : noun exaggeration
- As in embellishment : noun beautification; decorating
- As in exaggeration : noun overstatement, embellishment
- As in figure of speech : noun turn of expression
- As in hyperbole : noun exaggeration
Synonyms for hyper bole
- address
- adornment
- adumbration
- aggrandizement
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- amplification
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- aspersion
- asyndeton
- backbiting
- balderdash
- baloney
- bathos
- big talk
- boasting
- bombast
- calumniation
- calumny
- canard
- caricature
- cock-and-bull story
- coloring
- communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device
- comparison
- composition
- conceit
- crock
- deceit
- deception
- decoration
- defamation
- detraction
- device
- discourse
- dishonesty
- disinformation
- distortion
- doodad
- echoism
- elaboration
- ellipsis
- elocution
- eloquence
- embellishment
- embroidering
- embroidery
- emphasis
- enhancement
- enlargement
- enrichment
- euphemism
- euphuism
- evasion
- exaggeration
- exaltation
- excess
- expression
- extravagance
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falseness
- falsification
- falsity
- fancy
- fandangle
- fantasy
- fib
- fiction
- figure of speech
- fish story
- flight of fancy
- floridity
- flourish
- flower
- flowery language
- flowery speech
- forgery
- fraudulence
- frill
- froufrou
- fuss
- fustian
- garnish
- gilding
- gingerbread
- grandiloquence
- guile
- hogwash
- hot air
- hype
- hyperbole
- hyperbolism
- icing on the cake
- image
- imagery
- inaccuracy
- inflation
- invention
- irony
- jazz
- laying it on thick
- libel
- line
- litotes
- magnification
- magniloquence
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- mendacity
- metaphor
- metonymy
- misjudgment
- misrepresentation
- misstatement
- mountain out of molehill
- myth
- obloquy
- onomatopoeia
- oration
- oratory
- ornament
- ornamentation
- ostentation
- overemphasis
- overestimation
- overstatement
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- perjury
- personification
- pomposity
- PR
- pretension
- pretentiousness
- prevarication
- proteron
- puffery
- rant
- revilement
- reviling
- rhetoric
- romance
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- slander
- story
- stretch
- subterfuge
- synecdoche
- tabloid journalism
- tale
- tall story
- tall talk
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- untruth
- verbosity
- vilification
- way of speaking
- white lie
- whopper
- yarn
- yellow journalism
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