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exaggerative

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

adjective

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


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Other yvlog Forms

  • ·g·t· adverb
  • ԴDze·g·t adjective
  • ԴDze·g··ٴr adjective
  • ܲe·g·t adjective
  • ܲe·g··ٴr adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of exaggerative1

First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive
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Example Sentences

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"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."

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Maybe I’m the exaggerative one.

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“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.

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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.

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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.

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