exaggerative

English

Etymology

From exaggerate +‎ -ive.

Adjective

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 […]

Derived terms

• exaggeratively
• exaggerativeness

Translations

marked by exaggeration

• Irish: áibhéalach
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• Japanese: 誇大 (ja) (こだい, kodai)