exaggerative
English
Etymology
From exaggerate + -ive.
Adjective
exaggerative (comparative more exaggerative, superlative most exaggerative)
- 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 […]
- 1876, The Atlantic Monthly (volume 37, page 238)
Derived terms
- exaggeratively
- exaggerativeness
Translations
marked by exaggeration
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