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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
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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