hyperbole

Significado (Inglês)

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

Conceitos

hipérbole

exagero

Oposto de

understatement

Sinônimos

exaggeration

overstatement

exorbitance

extravagance

hyperbola

overstate

exaggerate

preciosity

excessive

Traduções

hyperbole

hipérbole

iperbole

Hyperbel

Übertreibung

υπερβολή

hyperbole

hyperbool

hipèrbole

exagération

mübalâğa

exageració

abartmak

abartma

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/haɪˈpɜːbəli/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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.