Definition of Exaggerative

1. a. Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.

Definition of Exaggerative

1. Adjective. Marked by exaggeration. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Exaggerative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exaggerative

exaeresis
exaerobic
exaflop
exaflops
exagerate
exageration
exaggerate
exaggerated
exaggeratedly
exaggeratedness
exaggerates
exaggerating
exaggeratingly
exaggeration
exaggerations
exaggerative (current term)
exaggeratively
exaggerativeness
exaggerator
exaggerators
exaggeratory
exaggregate
exagitate
exagitation
exagitations
exagram
exagrammes
exagrams
exahertz
exahertzes

Literary usage of Exaggerative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brief Outline of an Analysis of the Human Intellect: Intended to Rectify the by James Rush (1865)
"Of the exaggerative Quality of Perception. WE have shown that all the constituents may be varied to the bright and the faint, the quick and the slow. ..."

2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Pull Wilhelmina straight, the best you can ; deduct a twenty-five or sometimes even a seventy-five per cent, from the exaggerative portions of her statement ..."

3. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... from the exaggerative portions of her statement; you will find her always true, lucid, charmingly human; and by far the best authority on this part of ..."

4. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Pull Wilhelmina straight, the best you can ; deduct a twenty-five or sometimes even a seventy-five per cent, from the exaggerative portions of her statement ..."

5. What I Saw in America by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"It is either something which does not need any grotesque and exaggerative description, or of which there already exists a grotesque and exaggerative ..."

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