exaggerative

[ ig-zaj-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv ]

adjective

1. tending to exaggerate; involving or characterized by exaggeration.

Other Words From

• ex·agger·ative·ly adverb
• nonex·agger·ative adjective
• nonex·agger·a·tory adjective
• unex·agger·ative adjective
• unex·agger·a·tory adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of exaggerative¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive

Example Sentences

"Juicy is an exaggerative biography, but it's also the tale of hip-hop and how its legends bend the American Dream through sheer genius."

From BBC

Maybe I’m the exaggerative one.

From The Guardian

“It’s so exaggerative that some people might think it’s not real,” continued Pry, now the offensive coordinator at Bethune-Cookman whose son, Brent, is on Franklin’s Penn State staff.

From Washington Post

I have already described the tendencies toward exaggerative emphasis, stilted declamation, ill-concerted action, impertinent extravaganza, and wearisome repetition of exhausted motives, to which the species was peculiarly liable.

From Project Gutenberg

That explains nothing, while it tempts us to suspect its author of such credulity in his own penetration, that he apprehended that a whole line of ancestry through successive generations had been fatuous and exaggerative, since it continuously described and swore to occurrences which conflicted with his own theoretical limits to things credible.

From Project Gutenberg