Exaggerated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exaggerate \Ex*ag"ger*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Exaggerated};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Exaggerating} . ] [L. exaggeratus, p. p. of
     exaggerare to heap up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr.
     agger heap, aggerere to bring to; ad to + gerere to bear. See
     {Jest}. ]
     1. To heap up; to accumulate. [Obs.] "Earth exaggerated upon


        them [oaks and firs]." --Sir M. Hale.
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     2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the
        truth; to delineate extravagantly; to overstate the truth
        concerning.
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              A friend exaggerates a man's virtues. --Addison.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Exaggerated \Ex*ag"ger*a`ted\, a.
     Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- {Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly},
     adv.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  exaggerated
       adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an
              exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: {overdone}, {overstated}]
       2: enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated
          the size of her eyes" [syn: {magnified}, {enlarged}]
       3: enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had an exaggerated
          (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic style"
          [syn: {hyperbolic}, {inflated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  66 Moby Thesaurus words for "exaggerated":
     a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed,
     boundless, disproportionate, egregious, enormous, excessive,
     exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, gigantic,
     gluttonous, grandiloquent, high, high-flown, hyperbolic,
     hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, inflated, inordinate,
     intemperate, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight,
     outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn,
     overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown,
     overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overrated, oversold, overstated,
     overstressed, overvalued, overweening, overwrought, prodigal,
     profuse, puffed, puffed up, steep, stiff, stretched, superlative,
     too much, touted, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable,
     unrestrained