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exaggerative

/ig-zaj-uh-rey-tiv, -er-uh-tiv/US // ɪgˈzædʒ əˌreɪ tɪv, -ər ə tɪv //

夸大其词,夸张,夸张的,虚张声势

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : tending to exaggerate; involving or characterized by exaggeration.

Examples

  • I am afraid it is impossible to explain this monster amid the exaggerative sects and the eccentric clubs of my country.

  • He can be called exaggerative; but mere exaggeration conveys nothing of his typical talent.

  • He may have been morose, fanatical, exaggerative; but his bitter words suggest at least this dilemma.

  • Was it more than a figure of speech, an exaggerative personification under great emotion of what most people would call chance?

  • To Syme's exaggerative mind the bright, bleak houses and terraces by the Thames looked as empty as the mountains of the moon.