hyperbolizing
Making things bigger
Hyperbolizing is using exaggeration for emphasis or effect.
Someone hyperbolizing doesn't expect to be taken literally—they're amplifying for dramatic impact: She's hyperbolizing when she says the wait was a million years.
The word itself can sound like an accusation, suggesting someone is overstating their case.
Pompous, extravagant language
- bombastPretentious hollow language
- eloquencePersuasive verbal grace
- oratoryFormal eloquent discourse
- persuasionConvincing through reasoning
purple prose · grandiosity · verbosity · declamation · speechifying · pontification · magniloquence · overstatement
Excessive self-praise
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- self-aggrandizingExalting one's own status
- showing offOstentatious self-display
- swaggeringOstentatiously self-assured manner
chest-thumping · grandstanding · trumpeting · crowing · vaunting · big talk · bluster · bravado
Increasing strength or intensity
- inflatingCausing to expand
- overdoingExcessive effort or action
- overplayingExcessive dramatic emphasis
- stretchingExtending muscles or material
magnifying · overstating · embellishing · overemphasizing · dramatizing · sensationalizing · catastrophizing · aggrandizing
To grow vigorously
- gildingApplying decorative gold coating
- varnishingApplying protective clear coating
- glamorizationIdealizing portrayal of something
- romanticizingPortraying as more appealing
elaboration · enhancement · ornamentation · padding · spinning · coloring · prettifying · dressing up
grandiloquence
Pompous, extravagant language
persuasion · purple prose · grandiosity · verbosity · declamation · speechifying · pontification · magniloquence · overstatement · tall tales
bragging
Excessive self-praise
- pufferyOverblown self-promotion
- self-aggrandizingExalting one's own status
- showing offOstentatious self-display
swaggering · chest-thumping · grandstanding · trumpeting · crowing · vaunting · big talk · bluster · bravado · self-promotion
amplifying
Increasing strength or intensity
- inflatingCausing to expand
- overdoingExcessive effort or action
- overplayingExcessive dramatic emphasis
stretching · magnifying · overstating · embellishing · overemphasizing · dramatizing · sensationalizing · catastrophizing · aggrandizing · escalating
flourish
To grow vigorously
- gildingApplying decorative gold coating
- varnishingApplying protective clear coating
- glamorizationIdealizing portrayal of something
romanticizing · elaboration · enhancement · ornamentation · padding · spinning · coloring · prettifying · dressing up
hyperbolizingunderstating
Representing as less significant
downplaying · minimizing · underplaying · soft-pedaling · playing down
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