EXAGGERATED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Exaggerated

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪgzˈædʒərˌeɪtəd/ /ɪgzˈædʒərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Exaggerate v. t. (past & past part. exaggerated; pres. part. exaggerating)

To heap up; to accumulate. (Obs.) "Earth exaggerated upon them (oaks and firs)."

To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth concerning. "A friend exaggerates a man's virtues."

adjective

Exaggerated adj. Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.

See images of 'Exaggerated'

Etymology of 'Exaggerated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Exaggerated" Quotes from Famous Books

... face and the remainder to match, which even in a description is disagreeable, and quite detestable when he is forced into daily contact with his lover; moreover he is jealously watched and guarded against everything and everybody, and has to hear misplaced and exaggerated praises of himself, and censures equally inappropriate, which are intolerable when the man is sober, and, besides being intolerable, are published all over the world in all their indelicacy and wearisomeness when ...

— Phaedrus • Plato

... distance, in virtue of which confusion and distortion of impression disappear, and one is enabled not only to distinguish the decisive outlines of a period, but also to relegate to their true place in the scheme subordinate details which, at the moment of occurrence, had made an exaggerated impression from their ...

— Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles • Alfred T. Mahan

... work inspired me with a kind of awe. He looked so diminutive among these giant twisted trees, while yet I knew that his purpose and his knowledge were so great, and even in hurry he was dignified. The fancy that we were playing some queer, exaggerated game together met the fact that we were two men dancing upon the brink of some possible tragedy, and the mingling of the two emotions in my mind ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... subsequently, to represent this riot and massacre as a mere passing event which did not seriously compromise the welfare of Egypt; but Sir Alfred Milner in his calm and judicial survey of the whole question states that the fears then entertained by Europeans in Egypt "so far from being exaggerated, . . . perhaps even fell short of the ...

— The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) • John Holland Rose

... state of mind that he found it impossible to sleep, so to distract his attention from the sad thoughts which are so exaggerated during the night-hours he set to work in his lonely cabinet. Day found him still making mixtures and combinations, to the action of which he subjected pieces of bamboo and other substances, placing them afterwards in numbered and ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

More quotes...