overstate
Lay it thick
To overstate is to express something too strongly or represent it as greater than it really is: The report overstates the risks.
The word implies exaggeration beyond what facts support, whether intentional or careless.
It's hard to overstate how important something is suggests its significance resists exaggeration.
Increase in strength
- overemphasizeStress something too much
- overplayEmphasize excessively
- inflateFill with gas
- magnifyIncrease perceived size
stretch · distort · embellish · overestimate · overdraw · dramatize · hyperbolize · blow up
Pretentious hollow language
- grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- tall taleWildly exaggerated story
- exaggerationOverstating beyond reality
purple prose · magnification · embroidery · puffery · hype · bluster · rodomontade · fustian
Depict inaccurately or falsely
- fabricateInvent or manufacture
- deceiveCause false belief
- falsifyDistort the truth
- distortTwist from original form
spin · mislead · fudge · fake · bluff · puff · hype · overreach
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- sensationalArousing intense excitement
grandiose · overacted · flamboyant · operatic · hammy · emotive · overdramatic · breathless
amplify
Increase in strength
- overemphasizeStress something too much
- overplayEmphasize excessively
- inflateFill with gas
magnify · stretch · distort · embellish · overestimate · overdraw · dramatize · hyperbolize · blow up · overdo
bombast
Pretentious hollow language
- grandiloquencePompous, extravagant language
- rhetoricArt of persuasive language
- tall taleWildly exaggerated story
exaggeration · purple prose · magnification · embroidery · puffery · hype · bluster · rodomontade · fustian · grandiosity
misrepresent
Depict inaccurately or falsely
distort · spin · mislead · fudge · fake · bluff · puff · hype · overreach · oversimplify
theatrical
Exaggeratedly emotional for effect
- melodramaticExaggeratedly emotional in expression
- histrionicExaggeratedly emotional in behavior
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
sensational · grandiose · overacted · flamboyant · operatic · hammy · emotive · overdramatic · breathless · overblown
- lay it on thickembellish, ham it up, overact, dramatize, inflate
- exaggerateamplify, magnify, embellish, inflate, dramatize
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- highlightemphasize, highlight, accentuate, underscore, underline
overstatement, overstated, overstates, overstating, overstatements