exaggerated

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=ag=ger=at=ed

CIDE DICTIONARY

exaggerated, a. 

 Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

exaggerated

a bit much, abandoned, aggrandized, amplified, ballyhooed, boundless, disproportionate, egregious, enormous, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fabulous, fancy, gigantic, gluttonous, grandiloquent, high, high-flown, hyperbolic, hypertrophied, immoderate, incontinent, inflated, inordinate, intemperate, magnified, monstrous, out of bounds, out of sight, outrageous, overbig, overdeveloped, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overgrown, overlarge, overmuch, overpraised, overrated, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overvalued, overweening, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, puffed, puffed up, steep, stiff, stretched, superlative, too much, touted, unbridled, unconscionable, undue, unreasonable, unrestrained

ROGET THESAURUS

exaggerated

Expansion

N expansion, increase of size, enlargement, extension, augmentation, amplification, ampliation, aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction, turgescence, turgidness, turgidity, dispansion, obesity, hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus, dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension, puffing, puffiness, inflation, pandiculation, dilatability, expansibility, germination, growth, upgrowth, accretion, budding, gemmation, overgrowth, overdistension, hypertrophy, tympany, bulb, plumper, superiority of size, big bang, Hubble constant, expanded larger, &c (large), swollen, expansive, wide open, wide spread, flabelliform, overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical, pot bellied, swag bellied, edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended, patulous, bulbous, full blown, full grown, full formed, big, abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate, tumefacient, tumefying.

Exaggeration

N exaggeration, expansion, hyperbole, stretch, strain, coloring, high coloring, caricature, caricatura, extravagance, Baron Munchausen, men in buckram, yarn, fringe, embroidery, traveler's tale, fish story, gooseberry, storm in a teacup, much ado about nothing, puff, puffery, rant, figure of speech, facon de parler, stretch of fancy, stretch of the imagination, flight of fancy, false coloring, aggravation, exaggerated, overwrought, bombastic, hyperbolical, on stilts, fabulous, extravagant, preposterous, egregious, outre, highflying, hyperbolically, excitabat enim fluctus in simpulo.