hyperbole 音标拼音: [hɑɪp'ɚbəl
, i]
n . 夸张法
夸张法
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 .
Hyperbolic 105 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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