hyperbolised
Blown out of proportion
Hyperbolised is the British spelling of hyperbolized, the past tense of hyperbolize—to exaggerate or represent something as greater than it actually is.
The threat was hyperbolised to justify the intervention.
The word derives from hyperbole, rhetorical exaggeration for emphasis.
Claimed more than true
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
overacted · sensationalized · hammy · overplayed · campy · stagy · overblown · bombastic
Expanded with gas
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
- grandiloquentPretentiously elevated in speech
- pompousAffectedly grand in manner
magniloquent · turgid · overblown · flowery · purple · flamboyant · ostentatious · overwrought
overstated
Claimed more than true
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
histrionic · overacted · sensationalized · hammy · overplayed · campy · stagy · overblown · bombastic · grandiloquent
inflated
Expanded with gas
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- bombasticExcessively inflated language
- grandiloquentPretentiously elevated in speech
pompous · magniloquent · turgid · overblown · flowery · purple · flamboyant · ostentatious · overwrought · verbose
embroidered
Ornamented with sewn designs
elaborate · fanciful · garnished · adorned · decorated · glamorized · romanticized · overdone · enhanced · beautified
hyperbolisedunderstated
Deliberately minimized in expression
downplayed · minimised · underplayed · underemphasised · muted
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