Roget's Thesaurus

#549. Exaggeration

Nouns

exaggeration; expansion etc. 194; hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring; high coloring, caricature, caricatura; extravagance etc. (nonsense) 497; Baron Munchausen; men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale; fish story, gooseberry [Slang]. storm in a teacup; much ado about nothing etc. (overestimation) 482; puff, puffery etc. (boasting) 884; rant etc. (turgescence) 577. figure of speech, facon de parler [Fr.]; stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination; flight of fancy etc. (imagination) 515. false coloring etc. (falsehood) 544; aggravation etc. 835.

Verbs

exaggerate, magnify, pile up, aggravate; amplify etc. (expand) 194; overestimate etc. 482; hyperbolize; overcharge, overstate, overdraw, overlay, overshoot the mark, overpraise; make over much, over the most of; strain, strain over a point; stretch, stretch a point; go great lengths; spin a long yarn; draw with a longbow, shoot with a longbow; deal in the marvelous. out-Herod Herod, run riot, talk at random. heighten, overcolor; color highly, color too highly; broder; flourish; color etc. (misrepresent) 544; puff etc. (boast) 884.

Adjectives

exaggerated etc. v.; overwrought; bombastic etc. (grandiloquent) 577; hyperbolical, on stilts; fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre [Fr.], highflying.

Adverbs

hyperbolically etc. adj..

Phrases

excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo [Lat.] [Cicero].