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exaggerative, a.|ɛgˈzædʒərətɪv|
[f. exaggerate v. + -ive. Cf. Fr. exagératif.]
1. Of a statement, representation, etc.: Marked by exaggeration, hyperbolical.
1797A. Geddes Bible II. Pref. 8 This exaggerative language warns us not to take words of that kind in a strict theological meaning. 1863Sat. Rev. Jan. 123 The exaggerative character of these drawings. 1880J. Hawthorne Ellice Quentin I. 97 Let this confession put the reader on his guard against..exaggerative or prejudicial statements.
2. Of persons: Given to exaggerate; prone to exaggeration.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. v. iv, ‘Out of doors’, continues the exaggerative man, ‘were mad multitudes dancing round the bonfire’. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xxiii. (1857) 505 The tender passion is always a strangely exaggerative one. 1870J. H. Friswell Mod. Men Lett. 32 Dickens was very often exaggerative and pantomimic.
Hence eˈxaggeratively adv., in an exaggerative manner. eˈxaggerativeness, the quality of being exaggerative.
1856Chamb. Jrnl. V. 365 Exaggeratively exhibiting the defects of the system. 1867Carlyle Remin. II. 16 ‘It were better to perish’, as I exaggeratively said to myself, ‘than continue schoolmastering’. 1873Spectator 22 Feb. 245/1 A certain exaggerativeness in some of his anecdotes. |