Understatement

3 definitions found

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

  Understatement \Un"der*state`ment\, n.
     The act of understating, or the condition of being
     understated; that which is understated; a statement below the
     truth.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  understatement
       n : a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what
           might have been said [ant: {exaggeration}]

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

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "understatement":
     abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration,
     expressionism, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole,
     inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdrawing,
     mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation,
     misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement,
     perversion, quietness, restrainedness, restraint, simplicity,
     slanting, subduedness, twisting, unobtrusiveness