Hyperbolized

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Described or represented in a way that greatly overstates facts or reality
2. Presented with deliberate overemphasis to make something appear more extreme or significant
3. Conveyed using exaggeration beyond what is literally true to emphasize a point

Etymology: Hyperbole began as a Greek word for overshooting: "huperbolē" came from "huperballein," meaning "to throw beyond" or "to exceed," built from "huper" ("over, beyond") and "ballein" ("to throw"). Greek rhetoricians used it for the deliberate overstatement that tests a point beyond literal truth, and the Latin "hyperbole" carried that sense into medieval Europe and then into Middle English as "iperbole." "Hyperbolize" is simply "hyperbole" with the suffix "-ize," which came through Late Latin "-izare" and Middle French "-iser" before reaching English in its "-isen" form. The result is a verb meaning to express something through exaggeration. "Hyperbolized" is its past tense, the form used when someone has already done the exaggerating.

Synonyms: exaggerated, amplified, magnified, overstated, embellished

Antonyms: understated, downplayed, minimized, diminished, reduced