understatement
Noun
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Noun
understatement (uncountable)
- An incomplete statement, particularly:
- (uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect; meiosis.
- A master of understatement
- An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.
- Now that's an understatement.
- An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
- (uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect; meiosis.
- (rhetorical device) meiosis
- (generally) overstatement
- (rhetorical device) See hyperbole
- French: litote, peu dire
- German: Untertreibung
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