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hyperbolically
adverb
formaluk /ˌhaɪ.pəˈbɒl.ɪ.kəl.i/ us /ˌhaɪ.pɚˈbɑː.l.ɪ.kəl.i/
If someone writes or speaks hyperbolically, they do it in a way that that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, or more important than they are:
The government hyperbolically claimed that the new broadband network would transform our lives.
They described the festival, hyperbolically, as "the largest global event ever".
Related words
hyperbolic hyperbole
We often hyperbolically state that we are "starving" when a mealtime draws near.
People sometimes talk hyperbolically of a performance moving them to tears, but at the end of this concert, I actually cried.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Exaggerating & playing down
bloviate
blow something out of proportionidiom
cartoonish
cartoonishly
catastrophize
fulsome
go overboardidiom
inflated
make a mountain out of a molehillidiom
make much of somethingidiom
make something of something/someone
meal
mildly
minimization
OTT
over-egg
protest too muchidiom
romanticize
underplay
underrate
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