exaggerateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/, /ɛk(s)ˈzæ(ɡ)d͡ʒɜː(ɹ).ɹeɪt/, /ɪɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/
• ハイフネーション: ex‧ag‧ger‧ate

動詞

exaggerate (third-person singular simple present exaggerates, present participle exaggerating, simple past and past participle exaggerated)

1. To overstate, to describe more than the fact.

   Synonyms: big up, overexaggerate, overstate, hyperbolize, stretch, overcharge

   Antonyms: belittle, downplay, understate, trivialize

   I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!

   He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten.

   • 2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE‎:

     These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics.

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形容詞

exaggerate (comparative more exaggerate, superlative most exaggerate)

1. Exaggerative; overblown.
   • 1901, Valentin Matcas, The Human Addictions:

     And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate.

   • 2005, Daniel Marin, Megator, page 4:

     Water was invading, like some loving arms, some protecting wings, but its love and care were too exaggerate, they were deadly.

   • 2012, Joy Damousi, Mariano Ben Plotkin, Psychoanalysis and Politics, page 202:

     You will leave [the camp] and when confronted to the smallest inconvenience you will have again these reactions that, for me, are very exaggerate.

   • 2012, Yair Goldreich, The Climate of Israel: Observation, Research and Application, page 132:

     From this comparison, it seems that the data in Table 7.7 are reasonable, while Ashbel's values are exaggerate.

Further reading

• “exaggerate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “exaggerate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “exaggerate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

動詞

exaggerāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of exaggerō