Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of heaping or piling up.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive manner; a going beyond the bounds of truth, reason, or justice; a hyperbolical representation; hyperbole; overstatement.

    They say he's a millionnaire, but that's a massive exaggeration.

    Übertreibung

    преувеличе́ниеpreuveličénije

    перебі́льшенняperebílʹšennja, перебі́льшуванняperebílʹšuvannja

  3. (countable, uncountable)A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor.

More definitions
  • the act of making something more noticeable than usual
  • making to seem more important than it really is
  • extravagant exaggeration

Examples

37 sentences
  1. That's no exaggeration.

    Це не перебільшення. — deniko

    ruЭто не преувеличение. — odexed

    deDas ist keine Übertreibung. — freddy1

  2. Don't you think that's an exaggeration?

    ruТебе не кажется, что это преувеличение? — marafon

  3. That's a bit of an exaggeration.

  4. What he said was a slight exaggeration.

  5. I think that's an exaggeration.

    ruПо-моему, это преувеличение. — marafon

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
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Русский
By meaning 1
act of exaggerating:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
act of exaggerating:

Origin

Borrowed from Latin exaggerātiō.

Borrowed from Latin exaggerātiō.

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Forms

plural: exaggerations
Singularexaggeration
Pluralexaggerations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

4 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
exaggeration — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto