overexaggerating
Amplifying beyond truth
Overexaggerating is exaggerating to an excessive degree—though since exaggerate already means to overstate, the word is technically redundant.
In practice, it serves as an intensifier: You're not just exaggerating, you're overexaggerating.
The redundancy itself suggests the speaker finds the exaggeration especially egregious or theatrical.
Claim beyond the facts
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- inflationSustained price level increase
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
stretch · overemphasis · overdoing · overplaying · overselling · overkill · tall-tale · superlative
Exaggeratedly emotional in expression
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
- hammyExcessively theatrical in style
overacting · overplayed · sensationalized · flamboyant · effusive · emphatic · campy · stagey
Twisting from original state
- misrepresentationFalse or misleading statement
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
- inaccuracyLack of precision
deceptive · disinformation · misinforming · sensationalism · fearmongering · alarmist · scaremongering · propaganda
Ornamented with sewn designs
- inflatedExpanded with gas
- paddedFilled with soft material
- overstatedClaimed more than true
- ornateElaborately decorated
florid · gilded · adorned · elaborated · enhanced · overdone · overembellished · fanciful
overstatement
Claim beyond the facts
- amplificationIncrease in intensity
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- inflationSustained price level increase
hyperbole · stretch · overemphasis · overdoing · overplaying · overselling · overkill · tall-tale · superlative · grandiloquence
melodramatic
Exaggeratedly emotional in expression
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- theatricalExaggeratedly emotional for effect
hammy · overacting · overplayed · sensationalized · flamboyant · effusive · emphatic · campy · stagey · grandiose
distortion
Twisting from original state
- misrepresentationFalse or misleading statement
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- falsificationDeliberate alteration of truth
inaccuracy · deceptive · disinformation · misinforming · sensationalism · fearmongering · alarmist · scaremongering · propaganda · spin
embroidered
Ornamented with sewn designs
- inflatedExpanded with gas
- paddedFilled with soft material
- overstatedClaimed more than true
ornate · florid · gilded · adorned · elaborated · enhanced · overdone · overembellished · fanciful · extravagant
overexaggeratingunderstating
Representing as less significant
downplaying · underplaying · minimizing · trivializing · soft-pedaling
exaggerate, exaggerated, exaggeration, magnification, magnifying, aggrandize, exaggerating, exaggerates, aggrandizement