hyperbole

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /haɪˈpɜːbəli/    美 /haɪˈpɝbəli/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement. rhetoric,uncountable
    — Hyperbole soars too high, or creeps too low, Exceeds the truth, things wonderful to shew.
  2. An instance or example of such overstatement. countable
    — […]and when he ſpeakes, / 'Tis like a Chime a mending. With tearmes vnſquar' / Which from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropt, / Would ſeemes Hyperboles
  3. A hyperbola. countable,obsolete

词形变化

hyperboles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
cyberbole hype hyperbolic hyperbolism hyperbolist hyperbolize
相关词
hyperbola adynaton

词源

From Middle English iperbole, yperbole, from Latin hyperbolē, from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολή (huperbolḗ, “excess, exaggeration”), from ὑπέρ (hupér, “above”) + βάλλω (bállō, “to throw”, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH-). Doublet of hyperbola.
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