exaggerate

Other forms of exaggerate

past tense

exaggerated·

present participle

exaggerating·

third person

exaggerates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exaggerate

What does exaggerate mean?

exaggerate means "to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exaggerate?

exaggerate has 4 syllables: ex-ag-ge-rate. The stress falls on "ag". In IPA it is /ɪɡˈzædʒɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for exaggerate?

Close synonyms include overstate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is exaggerate a common word?

exaggerate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with exaggerate?

95 words rhyme with exaggerate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.