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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 exaggerationplay

  Familiarity information: HYPERBOLE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYPERBOLE (noun)


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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