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HYPERBOLE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hyperbole mean?
• HYPERBOLE (noun)
The noun HYPERBOLE has 1 sense:
1. extravagant exaggeration
Familiarity information: HYPERBOLE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extravagant exaggeration
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
exaggeration; hyperbole
Hypernyms ("hyperbole" is a kind of...):
figure; figure of speech; image; trope (language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense)
Derivation:
hyperbolic (enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness)
hyperbolize (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)
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