hyperbole

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (rhetoric, uncountable) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
2. (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
3. (countable, obsolete) A hyperbola.

Teenoorgestelde van

understatement

Sinonieme

exaggeration

overstatement

exorbitance

extravagance

hyperbola

overstate

exaggerate

preciosity

excessive

Vertalings

hyperbole

hipérbole

iperbole

Hyperbel

Übertreibung

υπερβολή

hyperbool

hipérbole

hyperbole

hipèrbole

exagération

exageració

exageración

exagero

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/haɪˈpɜːbəli/

Etimologie (Engels)

From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “I throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.