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To say I’m disappointed, frustrated are all understatements.
MARYLAND’S NEWCOMERS LEAD THE WAY IN STUNNING ROUT AT PENN STATEEMILY GIAMBALVONOVEMBER 8, 2020WASHINGTON POSTIt is not an understatement to say that this is the most anticipated book release of the season—if not the year.
6 NEW BOOKS TO READ IN NOVEMBERRACHEL KINGNOVEMBER 1, 2020FORTUNETo call Nia Long an ageless beauty would be an understatement.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIA LONG! THESE PHOTOS PROVE SHE ABSOLUTELY DOESN’T AGECHARLI PENNOCTOBER 30, 2020ESSENCE.COMTo say that this has been a stressful year is a gross understatement.
STOP DOOMSCROLLING ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND READ A BOOKMATTHEWHEIMEROCTOBER 25, 2020FORTUNETo say that the travel industry has been hit hard by the pandemic is an understatement.
ARE YOU READY TO START TRAVELING FOR WORK AGAIN? TRIPACTIONS’ CEO IS BANKING ON ITMICHAL LEV-RAM, WRITERSEPTEMBER 15, 2020FORTUNEWhat makes this so shocking is that it’s hard for landlords to break even when they have more than 25 percent vacancy – so to say that we have a lot of troubled office building owners is a huge understatement.
POLITICS REPORT: CITY’S BIG RECYCLED WATER PROJECT WINS IN COURTANDREW KEATTSJULY 25, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOHowells realized the unwisdom and weakness of dogmatic insistence, and the strength of understatement.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINEThis is the typical understatement of Old English rhetoric: it can only point to deliberate treachery on the part of the Eotens.
BEOWULFR. W. CHAMBERSThere is more danger of doing the injustice of understatement in commemorating a character so rounded and symmetrical.
MEMORIAL ADDRESSES ON THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF WILLIAM H. F. LEE (A REPRESENTATIVE FROM VIRGINIA)VARIOUSYou can say I have gone out on a trial run, which won't be a lie, only an understatement.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 158, MARCH 31, 1920VARIOUSSYNONYM OF THE DAY
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WORDS RELATED TO UNDERSTATEMENT
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- communication that is not meant literally; 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
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.