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exaggerated
" All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things."
Julian Barnes

Meaning of "exaggerated" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF EXAGGERATED

ɪɡˈzædʒəˌreɪtɪd


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EXAGGERATED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Exaggerated is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES EXAGGERATED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Exaggeration

Exaggeration is a representation of something in an excessive manner. The exaggerator has been a familiar figure in Western culture since at least Aristotle's discussion of the alazon: 'the boaster is regarded as one who pretends to have distinguished qualities which he possesses either not at all or to a lesser degree than he pretends...exaggerating'. It is the opposite of minimisation. Words or expressions associated with exaggeration include: ▪ catastrophization ▪ hyperbole ▪ laying it on thick ▪ magnification ▪ maximization ▪ overreaction ▪ overstating ▪ stretching the truth...

Definition of exaggerated in the English dictionary

The definition of exaggerated in the dictionary is unduly or excessively magnified; enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness. Other definition of exaggerated is abnormally enlarged.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EXAGGERATED

aspirated · camphorated · incorporated · invigorated · liberated · monounsaturated · oversaturated · perforated · polyunsaturated · saturated · supersaturated · uncorroborated · undecorated · undersaturated · unincorporated · unmoderated · unperforated · unrefrigerated · unsaturated · unseparated

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EXAGGERATED

exactingness · exaction · exactitude · exactly · exactment · exactness · exactor · exactress · exacum · exaggerate · exaggeratedly · exaggeratedness · exaggeratingly · exaggeration · exaggerative · exaggerator · exaggeratory · exahertz · exalbuminous · exalt

WORDS THAT END LIKE EXAGGERATED

battery-operated · calibrated · celebrated · computer-generated · concentrated · dedicated · dehydrated · federated · frustrated · highly rated · hydrated · illustrated · integrated · overrated · refrigerated · separated · serrated · top-rated · underrated · unrated · X-rated

Synonyms and antonyms of exaggerated in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «EXAGGERATED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «exaggerated» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «exaggerated» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF EXAGGERATED

Find out the translation of exaggerated to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of exaggerated from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «exaggerated» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

夸大了的
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

exagerado
570 millions of speakers
en

English

exaggerated
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

अतिरंजित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مبالغ فيه
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

преувеличены
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

exagerado
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

ক্ষতিকারক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

exagéré
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Dibesar-besarkan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

übertrieben
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

大げさな
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

과장된
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Exaggerated
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

phóng đại
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

மிகைப்படுத்தப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

अतिशयोक्तीपूर्ण
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

abartılı
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

esagerato
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

przesadzone
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

перебільшені
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

exagerat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπερβολικές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

oordrewe
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

överdriven
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

overdrevet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of exaggerated

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EXAGGERATED»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of exaggerated
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «exaggerated».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about exaggerated

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «EXAGGERATED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word exaggerated.
1
Alfred Adler
Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
2
Marcia Angell
Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.
3
Julian Barnes
All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
4
Katherine Boo
We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
5
Matthew Broderick
I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But the character is a sort of exaggerated version of me, he's a little more frightened than I am, everything seems so much bigger to him than it does to me.
6
Todd Burpo
As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if I exaggerated or if I didn't. My son is forever gonna believe that I'm an honest person or I'm a liar by what I wrote in that book, because he can read.
7
Eric Cantor
We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy. We will bring federal pay scales that have become so exaggerated into line with market rates.
8
Ahmed Chalabi
The issue of what my role in the - in persuading the Bush administration to go to war has been greatly exaggerated.
9
Stephen Colletti
I really loved working on 'Laguna Beach,' and I'd do it all over again. I'm one of the luckiest kids in the world, but I thought it was going to be a documentary about kids in high school, and they exaggerated all this drama. When it came out, it was this weird thing. People feel that they know you.
10
James F. Cooper
America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EXAGGERATED»

Discover the use of exaggerated in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to exaggerated and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Motherhood Exaggerated
When eight-year-old Nadia cracks her jaw on a piece of Halloween candy unmasking a rare bone cancer, mother and daughter are launched on a revelatory journey of treatment, recovery and survival
Judith Hannan, 2012
2
The Exaggerated Man and Other Stories
Then meet the awful friends of Mike Santini, a young woman who hates the light and is as pale as death and, of course, the Exaggerated Man himself...Terry Grimwood interweaves wry social commentary with lively narrative.
Terry Grimwood, 2009
3
Mina Loy: Extravagant Poetic, Exaggerated Life
In this feminist critical biography, I suggest that Loy's extravagant poetic reflects her exaggerated style of living and her ever-altering, internally conflicted philosophical stances---stances which were strongly influenced by the ...
Amanda Jane Bradley, 2008
4
Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly Exaggerated: Why ...
Why Women's Lives Aren't Getting Any Easier--And How We Can Make Real Progress For Ourselves and Our Daughters Carolyn Maloney. Many on the right preach “moral values,” but policies like these lack the moral values that matter most.
Carolyn Maloney, 2008
5
Has the Role of Rituals in Medieval Politics Been Exaggerated?
For the purpose of this essay it will be understood as an often recurring proceeding, with symbolic meaning attached to its outer appearance.
Nicholas Williams, 2009
6
Textbook of Anxiety Disorders, Second Edition
Investigators have conducted several studies to determine whether exaggerated startle response, as measured by physiological indices, is an endophenotype for anxiety disorders. In the case of posttraumatic stress disorder, this variable is ...
Dan J. Stein, Eric Hollander, Barbara O. Rothbaum, 2009
7
Crying Shame: Metaculture, Modernity, and the Exaggerated ...
Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent.
James M. Wilce, 2009
8
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fourth Edition: A ...
The third diagnostic category has to do with exaggerated grief re- sponses in which the person experiencing the intensification of a normal grief reaction either feels overwhelmed or resorts to maladaptive behavior. Unlike masked grief, where ...
J. William Worden PhD, ABPP, 2008
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Principles of Applied Civil Engineering Design
A drawing is exaggerated when the vertical scale is different from the horizontal scale. In a long profile view, for example, the longitudinal dimensions usually far exceed the vertical dimensions, and it is customary to exaggerate the vertical ...
Ying-Kit Choi, 2004
10
News of My Death- was Greatly Exaggerated!: How I Survived ...
A self-made billionaire tells how he survived the savings-and-loan crisis and tax-law changes that precipitated the Texas crash
Craig Hall, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EXAGGERATED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term exaggerated is used in the context of the following news items.
1
China media: Negative market sentiment 'exaggerated'
A commentary in Xinhua's Economic Information Daily says investors' negative sentiment in recent days is "exaggerated". "We believe that ... «BBC News, Jul 15»
2
Numbers mentioned in UBS report exaggerated: Yes Bank
Numbers mentioned in the UBS report are exaggerated as it talks about loan proposals and not necessarily exposures or loan outstanding, Yes ... «Moneycontrol.com, Jul 15»
3
Reports of Banking's Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
The demise of the traditional bank is imminent, if technology titans are to be believed. Legendary tech investor Marc Andreessen, for one, has ... «American Banker, Jul 15»
4
Experts call $90000 rhinoceros beetle claim exaggerated, dangerous
Professor Erol Yıldırım from the Faculty of Agriculture at Atatürk University says news reports about the rhinoceros beetle are exaggerated. «Today's Zaman, Jul 15»
5
Brucellosis: Risk of transmission exaggerated
... (farming target sports animals), migrations among herds, may pose a risk (man-made) on the other hand, but a greatly exaggerated one. «The Missoulian, Jul 15»
6
Hamas official: Rumors of talks with Israel exaggerated
Summary⎙ Print A senior Hamas source claims that rumors about negotiations with Israel for a long-term truce are exaggerated, saying that the ... «Al-Monitor, Jul 15»
7
The Demise Of Apple Watch May Be Greatly Exaggerated
Apple Watch sales have plunged 90 percent since a strong opening week, according to research published this week. On certain days, Apple is ... «RTT News, Jul 15»
8
Bottas hits back at exaggerated claims
But when asked about Bottas' claims, Massa responded: "That's exaggerated. "If he was so much faster, he would have passed me. But he tried ... «GrandPrix, Jul 15»
9
Demise of Treasury ETFs Over-exaggerated
Treasuries and bond-related exchange traded funds are shaking off speculation of a Federal Reserve interest rate hike as the Greece debt ... «ETF Trends, Jul 15»
10
(Paris Fashion Week: Schiaparelli) Exaggerated, embellished
Silk “jabot'' collars and voluminous “Duster'' coats wafted by with exaggerated pockets, alongside bejeweled eye, star and key lock decorations ... «Hong Kong Standard, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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