exaggerate

Meanings

Verb

to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
do something to an excessive degree
To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

Adj

Exaggerative; overblown.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).

Synonyms

amplify, big up, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdo, overdraw, overexaggerate, overstate, stretch

Antonyms

belittle, downplay, trivialize, understate

Scrabble Score: 19

exaggerate is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
exaggerate is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
exaggerate is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 21

exaggerate is a valid Words With Friends word