Synonyms for Exaggerate:

n.
- blow up out of proportion
• exaggerate
- hyperbolize
- magnify
• overdraw
- blow up out of all proportion
- enlarge on
- lay it on with a trowel
- make a big deal of
- make a mountain out of a molehill
- paint in glowing colors
- sling the bull
v.
• aggravate
- ex acerbate
- ex acerbated
- ex acerbates
- ex acerbating
- ex-acerbate
- ex-acerbated
- ex-acerbates
- ex-acerbating
- in flame
- in flamed
- in flaming
- in-flame
- in-flamed
- in-flames
- in-flaming
• amplify
- ex tend
- ex tended
- ex tending
- ex tends
- ex-tend
- ex-tended
- ex-tending
- ex-tends
- fleshes out
- hiked up
- hikes up
- hiking up
- jacked up
- jacking up
- jacks up
- pyramidded
- pyramidding
- souping up
- soups up
• blow up
- over state
- over stated
- over states
- over stating
- over-state
- over-stated
- over-states
- over-stating
• boast
- attracted attention
- attracting attention
- attracts attention
- blew smoke
- blow one horn
- blow one own horn
- blow ones horn
- blow ones own horn
- blow own horn
- blowing smoke
- blows smoke
- cock a doodle doo
- cock a doodle dooed
- cock a doodle dooing
- cock a doodle doos
- cock-a-doodle-dooed
- cock-a-doodle-dooing
- congratulated oneself
- congratulates oneself
- congratulating oneself
- flattered oneself
- flattering oneself
- flatters oneself
- gave a good account of oneself
- gave a good account oneself
- gave good account of oneself
- gave good account oneself
- give a good account oneself
- give good account of oneself
- give good account oneself
- gives a good account of oneself
- gives a good account oneself
- gives good account of oneself
- gives good account oneself
- giving a good account of oneself
- giving a good account oneself
- giving good account of oneself
- giving good account oneself
- grand stand
- grand standing
- grand stands
- grand-standing
- grand-stands
- hugged oneself
- hugging oneself
- hugs oneself
- laid thick
- lay thick
- laying on thick
- laying thick
- lays on thick
- lays thick
- showboated
- sounded off
- sounding off
- sounds off
- talked big
- talking big
- talks big
• communication
- exaggerate
• dramatize
- farcialized
- farcializes
- farcializing
- gave color to
- gives color to
- giving color to
- laid it on
- laying it on
- lays it on
- made a production of
- made production of
- make production of
- makes a production of
- makes production of
- making a production of
- making production of
- melodramatized
- melodramatizes
- melodramatizing
- play gallery
- play heartstrings
- played gallery
- played heartstrings
- played on heartstrings
- played to gallery
- playing gallery
- playing heartstrings
- playing on heartstrings
- playing to gallery
- plays gallery
- plays heartstrings
- plays on heartstrings
- plays to gallery
- pre sent
- pre-sent
- pre-sents
- pro duce
- pro duces
- pro-duces
- tragedized
- tragedizes
- tragedizing
• embellish
- Emblazed
- Emblazing
- adds bells and whistles
- adds bells whistles
- be deck
- be decked
- be decking
- be decks
- be-deck
- be-decked
- be-decking
- be-decks
- co loring
- co-loring
- emblazes
- gave details
- gives details
- giving details
- gussying up
- spiffing up
- spiffs up
• emote
- over act
- over acted
- over acting
- over acts
- over dramatize
- over dramatized
- over dramatizes
- over dramatizing
- over-act
- over-acted
- over-acting
- over-acts
- over-dramatize
- over-dramatized
- over-dramatizes
- over-dramatizing
- overdramatizes
- overdramatizing
• enhance
- up grade
- up graded
- up grades
- up grading
- up-grade
- up-graded
- up-grades
- up-grading
• enlarge
- dis tend
- dis tended
- dis tending
- dis tends
- dis-tend
- dis-tended
- dis-tending
- dis-tends
- grew larger
- growing larger
- grows larger
- jazzed up
- jazzes up
- jazzing up
- makes larger
- making larger
- multi plying
- multi-plied
- multi-plying
- slapping on
- slaps on
- up surge
- up surged
- up surges
- up surging
- up-surge
- up-surged
- up-surges
- up-surging
• falsify
- be lied
- be lying
- be-lied
- be-lying
- co oked
- co oking
- co-oked
- co-oking
- deaconed
- deaconing
- dis tort
- dis torts
- dis-tort
- dis-torts
- faked it
- fakes it
- faking it
- four flushed
- four flushes
- four flushing
- four-flushed
- four-flushes
- fourflush
- fourflushed
- fourflushes
- fourflushing
- frames up
- framing up
- mis state
- mis stated
- mis states
- mis stating
- mis-state
- mis-stated
- mis-states
- mis-stating
- phonied up
- phonies up
- phonying up
- pro moting
- pro-mote
- pro-motes
- pro-moting
- put act
- put an act
- trumping up
- trumps up
• increase
- in crease
- in creased
- in creases
- in creasing
- in-crease
- in-creased
- in-creases
- in-creasing
- marks up
- pro long
- pro longing
- pro longs
- pro tract
- pro tracts
- pro-long
- pro-longed
- pro-longing
- pro-longs
- pro-tract
- pro-tracts
- re double
- re doubled
- re doubles
- re doubling
- re-double
- re-doubled
- re-doubles
- re-doubling
- tacked on
- tacking on
- tacks on
• inflate
- over estimate
- over estimated
- over estimates
- over estimating
- over-estimated
- over-estimates
- over-estimating
- puffs up
- pumps up
- sur charge
- sur charged
- sur charges
- sur charging
- sur-charge
- sur-charged
- sur-charges
- sur-charging
- swelled up
- swells up
• lie
- BSED
- BSES
- Overdrew
- am untruthful
- are untruthful
- art untruthful
- bare false witness
- be guile
- be guiles
- be-guile
- be-guiles
- beared false witness
- bears false witness
- being untruthful
- bore false witness
- brake promise
- breaking promise
- breaks promise
- broke promise
- bsing
- de lude
- de ludes
- de-lude
- de-ludes
- dis simulate
- dis simulated
- dis simulates
- dis simulating
- dis-simulate
- dis-simulated
- dis-simulates
- dis-simulating
- in vent
- in vented
- in venting
- in vents
- in-vent
- in-vented
- in-venting
- in-vents
- is untruthful
- mis guide
- mis guides
- mis guiding
- mis inform
- mis informed
- mis informing
- mis informs
- mis instruct
- mis instructed
- mis instructing
- mis instructs
- mis lead
- mis leading
- mis speak
- mis speaking
- mis speaks
- mis spoke
- mis spoken
- mis-guide
- mis-guided
- mis-guides
- mis-guiding
- mis-inform
- mis-informed
- mis-informing
- mis-informs
- mis-instruct
- mis-instructed
- mis-instructing
- mis-instructs
- mis-lead
- mis-leading
- mis-leads
- mis-speak
- mis-speaking
- mis-speaks
- mis-spoke
- mis-spoken
- misguides
- misinstructing
- misinstructs
- misspoke
- over draw
- over drawing
- over drawn
- over draws
- over drew
- over-draw
- over-drawing
- over-drawn
- over-draws
- over-drew
- overdraws
- phonied
- phonying
- put a front
- put front
- put up front
- puts a front
- puts front
- puts up a front
- puts up front
- putting a front
- putting front
- putting up a front
- putting up front
- soft soaped
- soft soaping
- soft-soaps
- softsoap
- softsoaped
- softsoaping
- softsoaps
- strung along
- wast untruthful
- were untruthful
- wert untruthful
• misconstrue
- mis apprehend
- mis apprehended
- mis apprehending
- mis apprehends
- mis conceive
- mis conceived
- mis conceives
- mis conceiving
- mis construe
- mis construed
- mis construes
- mis construing
- mis interpret
- mis interpreted
- mis interpreting
- mis interprets
- mis judged
- mis judges
- mis judging
- mis read
- mis reading
- mis reads
- mis take
- mis taken
- mis takes
- mis taking
- mis took
- mis translate
- mis translated
- mis translates
- mis translating
- mis understand
- mis understanding
- mis understands
- mis understood
- mis-apprehend
- mis-apprehended
- mis-apprehending
- mis-apprehends
- mis-conceive
- mis-conceived
- mis-conceives
- mis-conceiving
- mis-construe
- mis-construed
- mis-construes
- mis-construing
- mis-interpret
- mis-interpreted
- mis-interpreting
- mis-interprets
- mis-judged
- mis-judges
- mis-judging
- mis-read
- mis-reading
- mis-reads
- mis-take
- mis-takes
- mis-taking
- mis-took
- mis-translate
- mis-translated
- mis-translates
- mis-translating
- mis-understand
- mis-understanding
- mis-understands
- mis-understood
- mistranslating
- take wrong way
- takes the wrong way
- takes wrong way
- taking the wrong way
- taking wrong way
- took the wrong way
- took wrong way
• misrepresent/misquote
- dis guise
- dis guised
- dis guises
- dis guising
- dis-guise
- dis-guised
- dis-guises
- dis-guising
- gave snow job
- gives snow job
- giving snow job
- mis color
- mis colored
- mis coloring
- mis colors
- mis quote
- mis quoted
- mis quotes
- mis quoting
- mis report
- mis reported
- mis reporting
- mis reports
- mis represented
- mis representing
- mis represents
- mis-color
- mis-colored
- mis-coloring
- mis-colors
- mis-quote
- mis-quoted
- mis-quotes
- mis-quoting
- mis-reported
- mis-reporting
- mis-reports
- mis-represented
- mis-representing
- mis-represents
- miscolored
- miscolors
- misreports
- spreading it on
- spreading on
- spreads it on
- spreads on
- take out context
- takes out context
- takes out of context
- taking out context
- taking out of context
- threw a curve
- threw curve
- throw curve
- throwing a curve
- throwing curve
- throws a curve
- throws curve
- took out context
- took out of context
• overestimate
- over-appraise
Other synonyms:

•

spin

•

production

•

build up

•

romance

Other relevant words:

• acclaim

talk up

• aggravate

exacerbate
in flames

• blow up

overstate

• boast

• dramatize

• express emotion

emote

• increase

• misrepresent

• overdo

• overplay

• prevaricate

• Other relevant words (noun):

action

• Other relevant words (transitive noun):

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Independent
- Verb, base form
  magnify, overemphasize, overestimate.
Other Related
- Verb, base form
  inflate, overdo, overreact, overstate, over-estimate.

What are the hypernyms for Exaggerate?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

hypernyms for exaggerate (as verbs)
- communication
  bluster, shoot a line, aggrandize, dramatise, gas, overstress, overemphasize, blow, pad, brag, blow up, gasconade, embroider, embellish, tout, swash, lard, dramatize, boast, overemphasise, aggrandise, vaunt.

What are the hyponyms for Exaggerate?

Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.

hyponyms for exaggerate (as verbs)
- communication
  mislead, misinform.

What are the opposite words for exaggerate?

The antonyms for the word "exaggerate" are "understate," "minimize," "mitigate," and "downplay." When we understate something, we describe it as smaller or less severe than it actually is. When we minimize something, we make it seem less important or significant. Mitigate means to appease or moderate the intensity of something. Downplay is to make light of something or to make it seem less important. Using these antonyms can be helpful in communication and writing to accurately convey the intended meaning without overdoing it.

What are the antonyms for Exaggerate?

v.
• belittle
- Dispraised
- Dispraising
- Squashing
- bad mouth
- badmouth
- be little
- be littles
- be-little
- be-littles
- blistered
- cut down size
- cut down to size
- cut quick
- cut the quick
- cut to quick
- cut to the quick
- cuts down size
- cuts down to size
- cuts quick
- cuts the quick
- cuts to quick
- cuts to the quick
- cutting down size
- cutting down to size
- cutting quick
- cutting the quick
- cutting to quick
- cutting to the quick
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- dis counted
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis credit
- dis credited
- dis crediting
- dis credits
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-counted
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-credit
- dis-credited
- dis-crediting
- dis-credits
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- dispraise
- dispraises
- dump on
- dumped on
- dumping on
- dumps on
- lowered
- pooh pooh
- poor mouth
- poor mouthed
- poor mouthing
- poor mouths
- put down
- running down
- scoff at
- scoffed at
- scoffing at
- scoffs at
- shoot down
- shoot full holes
- shoot full of holes
- shooting down
- shooting full holes
- shooting full of holes
- shoots down
- shoots full holes
- shoots full of holes
- shot down
- shot full holes
- shot full of holes
- sneer at
- sneered at
- sneering at
- sneers at
- soured grapes
- souring grapes
- sours grapes
- squash
- take a swipe at
- take down a peg
- takes a swipe at
- takes down a peg
- takes down peg
- takes swipe at
- taking a swipe at
- taking down a peg
- taking down peg
- taking swipe at
- took a swipe at
- took down peg
- took swipe at
- under valuing
- undervalued
• belittle, ridicule
- depreciate
• communication
- understate
• criticize, blame
- decry
• criticize; detract from
- disparage
• decry
- Reprobated
- Reprobating
- cried down
- cries down
- cry down
- crying down
- de cried
- de cries
- de cry
- de crying
- de fame
- de famed
- de fames
- de faming
- de value
- de valued
- de values
- de valuing
- de-cried
- de-cries
- de-cry
- de-crying
- de-fame
- de-famed
- de-fames
- de-faming
- de-value
- de-valued
- de-values
- de-valuing
- did a number on
- did number on
- didst a number on
- didst number on
- dis grace
- dis graced
- dis graces
- dis gracing
- dis-grace
- dis-graced
- dis-graces
- dis-gracing
- do number on
- does a number on
- does number on
- doest a number on
- doest number on
- doeth a number on
- doeth number on
- doing a number on
- doing number on
- dost a number on
- dost number on
- doth a number on
- doth number on
- mark down
- marked down
- opprobriate
- opprobriates
- opprobriating
- poor-mouthed
- poor-mouthing
- poormouth
- poormouthing
- poormouths
- re probate
- re probating
- re-probate
- re-probated
- re-probates
- take away
- take swipe at
- takes away
- taking away
- throwing stones at
- throws stones at
- took away
• depreciate
- Faulted
- clamor against
- clamored against
- clamoring against
- clamors against
- dis countenance
- dis countenanced
- dis countenances
- dis countenancing
- dis-countenance
- dis-countenanced
- dis-countenances
- dis-countenancing
- find fault with
- finding fault with
- finds fault with
- found fault with
- re vile
- re-vile
- undervalue
• detract
- Misprize
- Vilipend
- belittle
- cut rate
- cuts rate
- cutting rate
- de crease
- de creased
- de creases
- de creasing
- de tract
- de tracts
- de valuate
- de valuated
- de valuates
- de valuating
- de-crease
- de-creased
- de-creases
- de-creasing
- de-tract
- de-tracts
- de-valuate
- de-valuated
- de-valuates
- de-valuating
- dis esteem
- dis esteemed
- dis esteeming
- dis esteems
- dis-esteem
- dis-esteemed
- dis-esteeming
- dis-esteems
- draw away
- drawing away
- draws away
- drew away
- mis prize
- mis prized
- mis prizing
- mis-prize
- mis-prized
- mis-prizes
- mis-prizing
- misprized
- misprizes
- misprizing
- re duce
- re duces
- re-duce
- re-duces
- subtracted from
- subtracts from
- vilipended
- vilipending
- vilipends
- with draw
- with drawing
- with drawn
- with draws
- with drew
- with-draw
- with-drawing
- with-drawn
- with-drew
• devalue
- underrate
• disparage
- DISES
- de grade
- de graded
- de grades
- de grading
- de moralize
- de moralized
- de moralizes
- de moralizing
- de-grade
- de-graded
- de-grades
- de-grading
- de-moralize
- de-moralized
- de-moralizes
- de-moralizing
- dis
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis hearten
- dis heartened
- dis heartening
- dis heartens
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- dis-hearten
- dis-heartened
- dis-heartening
- dis-heartens
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- dissed
- disses
- dissing
- downcried
- downcries
- downcry
- downcrying
- put hooks in
- puts hooks in
• minimize; rate too low
- underestimate
• miscalculate
- misestimate
• misestimate
- Overvalued
- Overvaluing
- dis regard
- dis regarded
- dis regarding
- dis regards
- dis-regard
- dis-regarded
- dis-regarding
- dis-regards
- drop ball
- drop the ball
- dropped ball
- dropped the ball
- dropping ball
- dropping the ball
- drops ball
- drops the ball
- dropt ball
- dropt the ball
- gat signals crossed
- get wrong
- gets signals crossed
- gets wrong
- getting signals crossed
- getting wrong
- go wrong
- going wrong
- got signals crossed
- got wrong
- gotten signals crossed
- mis construe
- mis construed
- mis construing
- mis counted
- mis counts
- mis estimate
- mis estimated
- mis estimates
- mis estimating
- mis interpreted
- mis interpreting
- mis interprets
- mis read
- mis reading
- mis reads
- mis reckon
- mis reckoned
- mis reckoning
- mis understand
- mis understanding
- mis understands
- mis understood
- mis-construe
- mis-construed
- mis-construes
- mis-construing
- mis-counted
- mis-counts
- mis-estimate
- mis-estimated
- mis-estimates
- mis-estimating
- mis-interpreted
- mis-interprets
- mis-read
- mis-reading
- mis-reads
- mis-reckon
- mis-reckoned
- mis-reckoning
- mis-reckons
- mis-understand
- mis-understanding
- miscounted
- miscounting
- miss by a mile
- miss by mile
- missed by a mile
- missed by mile
- misses by a mile
- missing by a mile
- missing by mile
- over estimate
- over estimated
- over estimates
- over estimating
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over rate
- over rated
- over rates
- over rating
- over value
- over valued
- over values
- over valuing
- over-estimate
- over-estimated
- over-estimates
- over-estimating
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- over-rate
- over-rated
- over-rates
- over-rating
- over-value
- over-valued
- over-valuing
- overestimated
- overestimates
- overestimating
- overvalues
- slip up
- slipped up
- slipping up
- slips up
- slipt up
- went wrong
• overstate, embellish
- abridge
- be modest
- compress
- contract
- decrease
- deprecate
- ignore
- lessen
- lower
- minimize
- play down
- reduce
- shrink
• snigger
- Burlesqued
- Burlesquing
- Caricatured
- Caricaturing
- Fleered
- Fleering
- curl lip
- curl one lip
- curl one's lip
- curl ones lip
- curled lip
- curled one lip
- curled one's lip
- curled ones lip
- curling lip
- curling one lip
- curling one's lip
- curling ones lip
- curls lip
- curls one lip
- curls one's lip
- curls ones lip
- gave bronx cheer
- gives bronx cheer
- giving bronx cheer
- held contempt
- held in contempt
- held ridicule
- held to ridicule
- held up ridicule
- held up to ridicule
- hold contempt
- hold in contempt
- hold ridicule
- hold to ridicule
- hold up ridicule
- hold up to ridicule
- holding contempt
- holding in contempt
- holding ridicule
- holding to ridicule
- holding up ridicule
- holding up to ridicule
- holds contempt
- holds in contempt
- holds ridicule
- holds to ridicule
- holds up to ridicule
- rank out
- ranked out
- ranking out
- ranks out
- sniff at
- sniffed at
- sniffing at
- sniffs at
- turn nose
- turn one nose
- turn one's nose
- turn ones nose
- turn up one nose
- turn up one's nose
- turn up ones nose
- turned nose
- turned one nose
- turned one's nose
- turned ones nose
- turned up nose
- turned up one's nose
- turned up ones nose
- turning nose
- turning one nose
- turning one's nose
- turning ones nose
- turning up nose
- turning up one nose
- turning up one's nose
- turns nose
- turns one nose
- turns one's nose
- turns ones nose
- turns up nose
- turns up one nose
- turns up one's nose
- turns up ones nose
• take away a part; lessen
- detract
• underestimate
- made light of
- make light of
- makes light of
- making light of
- mis calculated
- mis calculates
- mis calculating
- mis carried
- mis carries
- mis carry
- mis carrying
- mis-calculates
- mis-calculating
- mis-carry
- mis-carrying
- not do justice
- sell short
- selling short
- sells short
- sold short
- think too little of
- thinking too little of
- thinks too little of
- thought too little of
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under estimating
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimates
- under-estimating
• underrate
- Underprize
- mis judged
- mis judges
- mis judging
- mis-judged
- mis-judges
- mis-judging
- under price
- under priced
- under prices
- under pricing
- under prize
- under prized
- under prizes
- under prizing
- under rate
- under rated
- under rates
- under rating
- under-price
- under-priced
- under-prices
- under-pricing
- under-prize
- under-prized
- under-prizes
- under-prizing
- under-rate
- under-rated
- under-rates
- under-rating
- underprice
- underpriced
- underprices
- underpricing
- underprized
- underprizes
- underprizing
- underrated
• understate
- under state
- under stated
- under states
- under stating
- under-state
- under-stated
- under-states
- under-stating
- understated
• undervalue
- under value
- under valued
- under values
- under-value
- under-valued
- under-values
- under-valuing
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overestimate
overvalue

Usage examples for Exaggerate

"If one is to exaggerate, then exaggerate after the Arabian fashion," said Pan Tarkowski, laughing.

"In Desert and Wilderness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz

Repton started at these words, and Massingbred resumed: True, upon my honor; I exaggerate nothing.

"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"

Charles James Lever

I do not exaggerate when I say that there was practically not one hour of pleasure in those troubled days.

"My Attainment of the Pole"

Frederick A. Cook

Famous quotes with Exaggerate

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.

Floyd Abrams
It is almost impossible to exaggerate the proneness of the human mind to take miracles as evidence, and to seek for miracles as evidence.

Matthew Arnold
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Honore de Balzac
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

Sarah Bernhardt
Most people, even among those who know Shakespeare well and come into real contact with his mind, are inclined to isolate and exaggerate some one aspect of the tragic fact.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

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