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[ adjective ] enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
Synonyms Examples "had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself" "a hyperbolic style" Used in print (Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)If the barn-burner 's family produces a Flem_Snopes , who personifies commercialism and materialism in hyperbolic crassness , the Compson family produces a Jason_Compson 4 , . (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing , or incident , in his immediate environment by some symbolic sounding , hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene . Related terms |
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