Understatement

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  • noun. A disclosure or statement that is less than complete.
  • noun. Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.
  • noun. Restraint in artistic expression.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of understating. That which is understated; a statement of less than the full truth.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a disclosure or statement that is less than complete
  • noun. restraint or lack of emphasis, especially for ironic effect
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
    • Word Usage
    "In the end, Mr. Castro, 34, opted for what he described as understatement: pink eye shadow, a bright pink V-neck shirt and intermittent outbursts of tears."
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    overstatement  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    statement  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    litotes  meiosis  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blunder  brevity  casualness  celerity  coincidence  
    Synonym
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    abstractionism  coloring  deformation  distortion  exaggeration  
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