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hyperbolic
adjective as in exaggerated
Strongest matches
adjective as in rhetorical
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- articulate
- aureate
- bombastic
- declamatory
- eloquent
- embellished
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- flamboyant
- flashy
- florid
- fluent
- glib
- grand
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- imposing
- inflated
- magniloquent
- mouthy
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overdone
- overwrought
- pompous
- pretentious
- showy
- silver-tongued
- sonorous
- stilted
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- voluble
- windy
Example Sentences
Oregon’s attorney general filed a lawsuit Monday alleging the president had applied a “baseless, wildly hyperbolic pretext” to send in the troops.
“People ask, well, is ‘authoritarianism’ you being hyperbolic?”
Others seemed to celebrate Kirk’s killing or suggest it was justified in some way given his own hyperbolic remarks from the past.
When asked about White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller's comment that Washington is more violent than Baghdad, Bowser said "any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false".
"Any comparison to a war-torn country is hyperbolic and false," Bowser said.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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