hyperbolic
Blown way up
Hyperbolic means wildly exaggerated or overstated: His hyperbolic claims about the product's benefits strained credibility.
The word describes language that goes beyond what's reasonable or accurate for effect.
In mathematics, hyperbolic refers to curves and functions related to the hyperbola—a technical sense unrelated to exaggeration.
Pretentiously elevated in speech
- magniloquentUsing pompous, elevated rhetoric
- orotundBombastically resonant in speech
- declamatoryPompously rhetorical in style
- turgidSwollen or pompous
inflated · pompous · bombast · oratorical · verbose · flowery · high-flown · ornate
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- over-the-topExcessively dramatic or extravagant
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
operatic · flamboyant · bombastic · grandiose · extravagant · overblown · sensational · excessive
Geometry without parallel postulate
- geodesicShortest curved-surface path
- curvatureDeviation from flatness
- tessellationGapless plane coverage
- EscherDutch impossible-geometry artist
saddle · hyperboloid · asymptotic · ideal · disc · plane
Overstating beyond reality
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- parodySatirical imitation
- lampoonHarsh public mockery
- spoofComic exaggerated imitation
send-up · absurdist · deadpan · tall tale · farce · burlesque · satirical · comic
Claim beyond the facts
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- inflationSustained price level increase
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- overemphasisExcessive importance placed
dramatization · magnification · stretch · distortion · escalation · heightening · intensification · elaboration
grandiloquent
Pretentiously elevated in speech
- magniloquentUsing pompous, elevated rhetoric
- orotundBombastically resonant in speech
- declamatoryPompously rhetorical in style
turgid · inflated · pompous · bombast · oratorical · verbose · flowery · high-flown · ornate · fustian
theatrical
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- over-the-topExcessively dramatic or extravagant
histrionic · operatic · flamboyant · bombastic · grandiose · extravagant · overblown · sensational · excessive · showy
non-Euclidean
Geometry without parallel postulate
- geodesicShortest curved-surface path
- curvatureDeviation from flatness
- tessellationGapless plane coverage
Escher · saddle · hyperboloid · asymptotic · ideal · disc · plane
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- caricatureExaggerated comic depiction
- parodySatirical imitation
- lampoonHarsh public mockery
spoof · send-up · absurdist · deadpan · tall tale · farce · burlesque · satirical · comic · overstatement
overstatement
Claim beyond the facts
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- inflationSustained price level increase
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
overemphasis · dramatization · magnification · stretch · distortion · escalation · heightening · intensification · elaboration · overselling
- geometryangles, circles, angle, shapes, lines
- hyper-hyperactive, hyperlink, hypertension, hyperspace, hyperventilate
- theatricaltheatrical, dramatic, melodramatic, histrionic, hammy
- lenseszoom lens, multifocal, prime lens, progressive, single vision
- writing stylesformal, informal, minimalism, maximalism, concise
- cosmic adjectivesstellar, celestial, cosmic, galactic, solar
hyperbolicunderstated
Deliberately minimized in expression
restrained · muted · subdued · measured · modest
hyperbole, hyperbolize, hyperbola, hyperboles, hyperbolizing, hyperbolized, hyperbolically, hyperbolizes, hyperbolical