exaggerator
Teller of whoppers
An exaggerator is someone who habitually overstates or amplifies facts, claims, or descriptions beyond what's accurate.
The word carries a mildly dismissive tone—calling someone an exaggerator suggests their accounts shouldn't be taken at face value: He's such an exaggerator—the fish wasn't that big.
One who adds decoration
- mythmakerInventor of legends
- fabricatorCreator of lies
- spinnerThing that rotates
- romancerOne who woos
anecdotist · yarn-spinner · fabulist · enhancer · colorist · embroider · dramatizer · sensationalist
One who flaunts achievements
- blowhardBoastful empty talker
- show-offOne who flaunts
- grandstanderOne who seeks applause
- windbagOne who prattles endlessly
bigmouth · loudmouth · egotist · self-promoter · swaggerer · puffer · trumpeter · vainglorious
Claim beyond the facts
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- magnificationDegree of visual enlargement
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- inflationSustained price level increase
overemphasis · superlative · grandiloquence · stretch · caricature · hyperbolic · overstater · amplifier
Exaggeratedly emotional in expression
- hammyExcessively theatrical in style
- overactingExcessive theatrical performance
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
emoting · scenery-chewing · overwrought · flamboyant · showy · expressive · theatrical · performative
embellisher
One who adds decoration
- mythmakerInventor of legends
- fabricatorCreator of lies
- spinnerThing that rotates
romancer · anecdotist · yarn-spinner · fabulist · enhancer · colorist · embroider · dramatizer · sensationalist
braggart
One who flaunts achievements
- blowhardBoastful empty talker
- show-offOne who flaunts
- grandstanderOne who seeks applause
windbag · bigmouth · loudmouth · egotist · self-promoter · swaggerer · puffer · trumpeter · vainglorious · boastful
overstatement
Claim beyond the facts
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- magnificationDegree of visual enlargement
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
inflation · overemphasis · superlative · grandiloquence · stretch · caricature · hyperbolic · overstater · amplifier · magnifier
melodramatic
Exaggeratedly emotional in expression
- hammyExcessively theatrical in style
- overactingExcessive theatrical performance
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
histrionic · emoting · scenery-chewing · overwrought · flamboyant · showy · expressive · theatrical · performative
- showoffsshowoff, show-off, braggart, bragger, boaster
- blabbermouthsblabbermouth, gossipmonger, rumormonger, scandalmonger, talebearer
- deceiversliar, liars, deceiver, fraud, fake
- difficult peopleegomaniac, egotist, nitpicker, drama queen, control freak
- liarsdeceiver, fabricator, falsifier, fraud, prevaricator
- storytellersstorytellers, narrator, narrators, tale-teller, tale spinner
exaggeratorminimizer
One who reduces significance
downplayer · diminisher · deflator · deflater · lowballer
exaggeratorliteralist
One rejecting figurative meaning
truth-teller · straight shooter · realist · precisionist · reporter
- exaggerated featuresAmplified distinguishing characteristics
- lying and exaggeratingDistorting facts intentionally
- exaggerated responseDisproportionate reaction to stimulus
- exaggerated reactionsDisproportionate emotional responses
- comic exaggerationHumorous overstatement for effect
- comedic exaggerationOverstatement for laughs
exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggeration, exaggerating, exaggerates, exaggerations, exaggerators