exaggerative

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From exaggerate +‎ -ive.

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exaggerative (comparative more exaggerative, superlative most exaggerative)

  1. Marked by exaggeration.
    • 1876, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 37, page 238:
      [] it is really an uncommon piece of exaggerative imagination which we find in the description of this old bean's elaborate costume, with its pads, straps, strings []

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