hyperbole

Senso (Inglese)

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

Concetti

iperbole

esagerazione

Opposto di

understatement

sinonimi

exaggeration

overstatement

exorbitance

extravagance

hyperbola

overstate

exaggerate

preciosity

excessive

Traduzioni

hyperbole

hipérbole

Hyperbel

Übertreibung

υπερβολή

hipérbole

hyperbole

hyperbool

hipèrbole

exagération

exageració

exagero

exageración

abartmak

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/haɪˈpɜːbəli/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.