hyperbole, exaggeration
(noun) extravagant exaggeration
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hyperbole (countable and uncountable, plural hyperboles)
(uncountable, rhetoric, literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
(countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.
• (rhetoric): overstatement, exaggeration, auxesis
• (rhetoric): See understatement
Source: Wiktionary
Hy*per"bo*le, n. Etym: [L., fr. GrHyper-, Parable, and cf. Hyperbola.] (Rhet.)
Definition: 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. Our common forms of compliment are almost all of them extravagant hyperboles. Blair. Somebody has said of the boldest figure in rhetoric, the hyperbole, that it lies without deceiving. Macaulay.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
According to Guinness World Records, the most massive cup of coffee contained 22,739.14 liters and was created by AlcaldĂa Municipal de Chinchiná (Colombia) at Parque de BolĂvar, Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia, on 15 June 2019. Fifty people worked for more than a month to build this giant cup. The drink prepared was Arabic coffee.
