exaggeration

Other forms of exaggeration

plural

exaggerations·

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 exaggeration

What does exaggeration mean?

exaggeration means "extravagant exaggeration". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in exaggeration?

exaggeration has 5 syllables: ex-ag-ge-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ɪɡˌzædʒɚˈeɪʃən/.

What is another word for exaggeration?

Close synonyms include hyperbole, overstatement, magnification. 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 exaggeration a common word?

exaggeration 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 exaggeration?

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