exaggerative

American  

[ig-zaj-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv] / ɪgˈzædʒ əˌreɪ tɪv, -ər ə tɪv /

Also exaggeratory

adjective

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

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Other Word Forms

• exaggeratively adverb
• nonexaggerative adjective
• nonexaggeratory adjective
• unexaggerative adjective
• unexaggeratory adjective

Etymology

Origin of exaggerative

First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive

Example Sentences

I am afraid it is impossible to explain this monster amid the exaggerative sects and the eccentric clubs of my country.

From The Ball and the Cross by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Was it more than a figure of speech, an exaggerative personification under great emotion of what most people would call chance?

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

There was no doubt—making due allowance for Moongarr Bill's exaggerative optimism—that the find was a genuine one.

From Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life by Praed, Campbell, Mrs.

He was by no means without humor,--a characteristic which shows in some of his portraits,--and sometimes realized the humorous aspects of his own intense and exaggerative temperament.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert

Thus Thoreau was an exaggerative and a parabolical writer, not because he loved the literature of the East, but from a desire that people should understand and realise what he was writing.

From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis