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单词 hyperbole
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Definition of hyperbole in English:

hyperbole

noun hʌɪˈpəːbəlihaɪˈpərbəli
mass noun
  • Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

    夸张法

    he vowed revenge with oaths and hyperboles
    mass noun you can't accuse us of hyperbole
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's safe to say that hyperbole is the stuff of both poetry and protest movements.
    • Pack up the breathless hyperbole and just point us in the direction of better gear.
    • Whether Alice actually wanted to put a hospital in the casino or the claim is merely gossipy hyperbole is unclear.
    • We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and hyperbole.
    • In a literary world filled with emotionalism and hyperbole, there are a few guiding stars.
    • Real tragedies do not need hyperbole, for they are intrinsically hyperbolic.
    • In any other case this might sound like directorial hyperbole, but Lloyd has reason to be confident.
    • It is impossible to create a responsible ethical and policy debate in a climate of hyperbole.
    • Having said that let us not get carried away in hyperbole and rhetoric.
    • Such hyperbole deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
    • According to the narrator, fierce would be hyperbole for even the bravest of hobbits.
    • They generally strike me as hyperbole that works to insult but not really to enlighten.
    • Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, hyperbole and damage limitation.
    • He's using exaggeration and hyperbole to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
    • The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards hyperbole.
    • Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
    • Similarly, claims about the potential of the Internet are usually overstated and often hyperbole.
    • In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of hyperbole.
    • But this exclamation is hyperbole; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
    • He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and hyperbole.
    Synonyms
    exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, amplification, embroidery, embellishment, overplaying, excess, overkill
    informal purple prose, puffery

Derivatives

  • hyperbolical

  • adjective ˌhʌɪpəˈbɒlɪk(ə)lˌhaɪpərˈbɑlək(ə)l
    • Even if one goes so far as to say that the use of flashlight powder is ‘dangerous’, it is hyperbolical to describe it as ‘extra-hazardous’.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But in neither of those propositions does one find the "I" which, for Descartes, was the necessary bastion against hyperbolical doubt.
      • According to the publisher's hyperbolical publicity, the book covers ‘every aspect’ of Western medical history.
      • Her portrait of her runaway ex-husband Tadeusz is equally hyperbolical.
      • Earlier this year a legendary figure in the hyperbolical world of ‘supermarket’ tabloids, the inimitable Eddie Clontz, died.
  • hyperbolically

  • adverbˌhʌɪpəˈbɒlɪk(ə)li
    • The poem opens hyperbolically with an image of an innocent young nymph who spends her days reclining in the grass.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Heat capacity increased linearly with temperature for ice and hyperbolically for supercooled water.
      • Beck was once, somewhat hyperbolically, cited as our generation's Bob Dylan.
      • Even Roger Ebert, who hyperbolically called it the worst film he'd ever seen at the festival, has given his upward-thumb to this renovated version.
      • But his account of the possibilities for response to this inheritance is hyperbolically overblown.
  • hyperbolism

  • noun hʌɪˈpəːbəlɪz(ə)mhaɪˈpərbəˌlɪzəm
    • This, of course, is expressed in poetry in which hyperbolism, exaggeration, is the fundamental law.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is no hyperbolism that the campaign period is the most critical and sensitive stage in any presidential and parliamentary elections.
      • Like the Caroline poets of his epoch, Brome's use of rhetorical hyperbolism is also linked to the eye of the one who beholds.
      • As a result, in some places the images have an overwrought, almost drunken hyperbolism.
      • At the time when the novel appeared, this apocalyptical chapter must have seemed to be the boundary of hyperbolism.

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek huperbolē (see hyperbola).

Definition of hyperbole in US English:

hyperbole

nounhaɪˈpərbəlihīˈpərbəlē
  • Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

    夸张法

    he vowed revenge with oaths and hyperboles
    mass noun you can't accuse us of hyperbole
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It is impossible to create a responsible ethical and policy debate in a climate of hyperbole.
    • Behind every food scare, there is a barrage of claims and counter-claims, hyperbole and damage limitation.
    • The instances are inconspicuous, but do make for a slight forcing of the effect towards hyperbole.
    • Real tragedies do not need hyperbole, for they are intrinsically hyperbolic.
    • In any other case this might sound like directorial hyperbole, but Lloyd has reason to be confident.
    • In a literary world filled with emotionalism and hyperbole, there are a few guiding stars.
    • Chandler's similes and sarcastic hyperboles are full of attitude in the contemporary New York sense.
    • Pack up the breathless hyperbole and just point us in the direction of better gear.
    • In return I can offer you glory, fame and a hatful of hyperbole.
    • They generally strike me as hyperbole that works to insult but not really to enlighten.
    • Whether Alice actually wanted to put a hospital in the casino or the claim is merely gossipy hyperbole is unclear.
    • Similarly, claims about the potential of the Internet are usually overstated and often hyperbole.
    • He should then appreciate the fine line between Churchillian rhetoric and hyperbole.
    • It's safe to say that hyperbole is the stuff of both poetry and protest movements.
    • We see this in the recurrence of his favourite rhetorical figures of paradox and hyperbole.
    • But this exclamation is hyperbole; we are not speaking in literal seriousness.
    • Such hyperbole deadens the sensitivity to moral distinctions in public discourse.
    • Having said that let us not get carried away in hyperbole and rhetoric.
    • He's using exaggeration and hyperbole to be entertaining - lots of writers do that.
    • According to the narrator, fierce would be hyperbole for even the bravest of hobbits.
    Synonyms
    exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, amplification, embroidery, embellishment, overplaying, excess, overkill

Origin

Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek huperbolē (see hyperbola).

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