[syn: exaggerated, magnified, enlarged]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Exaggerated \Ex*ag"ger*a`ted\, a.
Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly,
adv.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
exaggerated
adj 1: represented as greater than is true or reasonable; "an
exaggerated opinion of oneself" [syn: exaggerated,
overdone, overstated]
2: enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the
size of her eyes" [syn: exaggerated, magnified,
enlarged]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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