Meaning & use
overstatement
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A statement that represents something as greater, more important, or more extreme than it actually is.
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Calling the minor delay a "disaster" was clearly an overstatement.
The report's claims of unprecedented success turned out to be an overstatement.
A note on using this word
"Overstatement" is the direct opposite of "understatement," and both are common tools of rhetoric and persuasion.
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