Exaggerate

Pronunciation

Origin

From Latin exaggeratus, past participle of exaggerare ("to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate"), from ex ("out, up") + aggerare ("to heap up"), from agger ("a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc."), from aggerere, adgerere ("to bring together"), from ad ("to") + gerere ("to carry").

Full definition of exaggerate

Verb

1. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating. The real number is about ten.

Synonyms

• overexaggerate
• overstate

Antonyms

• (overstate) downplay, understate

Derived terms

• exaggeratedly
• exaggeratingly
• exaggerative
• exaggeratively
• exaggerativeness
• exaggerator
• exaggeratory

Related terms

• exaggeration