What is another way to say exaggeration?
Find another word for exaggerate. In this page you can discover 106 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for exaggerate, like: hyperbolize, embellish, embroider, overstate, blow up, misrepresent, heighten, lay it on with a trowel, intensify, brag and misreport.
What is it called when you make something sound bigger than it is?
verb. to describe something in a way that makes it seem better, worse, larger, more important etc than it really is.
What are some antonyms for exaggeration?
belittlement,
What do you call a person that over exaggerates everything?
Such a person is known as a pathological liar, a compulsive liar, or a mythomaniac. See this definition of pseudologia fantastica.
What is it called when someone exaggerates all the time?
Pathological lying, also known as mythomania and pseudologia fantastica, is the chronic behavior of compulsive or habitual lying. Unlike telling the occasional white lie to avoid hurting someone’s feelings or getting in trouble, a pathological liar seems to lie for no apparent reason.
What does it mean when someone exaggerates?
transitive verb. 1 : to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth : overstate a friend exaggerates a man’s virtues— Joseph Addison. 2 : to enlarge or increase especially beyond the normal : overemphasize. intransitive verb. : to make an overstatement.
What do you call someone who exaggerates the truth?
What causes a person to exaggerate?
It may be an expression of a desire or a goal, jealousy, or because they want others to like them. For this reason, you may choose to “grin and bear it,” keeping in mind that the strain of exaggeration is usually greater on the person doing the overstating.
What do you call someone who exaggerates everything?
What do you call a person who exaggerates everything?
Exaggerator and overstater are both English words that fit your meaning.