Overstatement

2 definitions found

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

  Overstatement \O"ver*state"ment\, n.
     An exaggerated statement or account.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  overstatement
       n : making to seem more important than it really is [syn: {exaggeration},
            {magnification}] [ant: {understatement}]