exaggerate
Verb
- to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- do something to an excessive degree
- To overstate, to describe more than the fact.
Adj
- Exaggerative; overblown.
Examples
- He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.
- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).
Synonyms
amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdo, overdraw, overstate, big up, overexaggerate, stretch
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 19
exaggerate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordexaggerate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
exaggerate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary