Thesaurus / under-statement
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synonyms for under-statement
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- stylistic device
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- synecdoche
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to under-statement, such as: distortion, litotes, restraint, and underestimate.
antonyms for under-statement
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How to use under-statement in a sentence
It will be seen that the account given in the text is an under-statement.
FRAY LUIS DE LENJAMES FITZMAURICE-KELLYBut both sages have already the Chinese characteristics of humour, restraint, and under-statement.
THE PROBLEM OF CHINABERTRAND RUSSELLIn Chinese poetry there is an apparent absence of passion which is due to the same practice of under-statement.
THE PROBLEM OF CHINABERTRAND RUSSELLOver statement is very dangerous; under statement subtly powerful.
THE YOUNG MAN AND THE WORLDALBERT J. BEVERIDGETo say that Mr. Lincoln was a man who had the courage of his convictions would be rather an under-statement.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOLUME 1 (OF 2)WILLIAM H. HERNDONIt was delightfully extravagant, or a miracle of under-statement.
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1870FRED LEWIS PATTEEThere are some people whose rhetoric consists of a slight habitual under-statement.
ELSIE VENNEROLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.Their restraint and under-statement are evident when they are compared with Western mystics.
THE PROBLEM OF CHINABERTRAND RUSSELLThe Greek word was particularly used of an under-statement in the nature of dissimulation.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 14, SLICE 7VARIOUS“If I have a foible, it is under-statement,” returned Hadria, with a half-smile.
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