Hyperboles is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for HYPERBOLES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• HYPERBOLE, (Greek) impression by extravagant exaggeration
• exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• extravagant exaggeration (as “mile-high ice-cream cones”)

Words related to HYPERBOLES

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How to use HYPERBOLES in a sentence

• We pardon his hyperboles for the evident earnestness with which they are uttered.
• He loved to play with distinctions, hyperboles, parodoxes, the very casuistry and dialectics of love or devotion.
• His hyperboles, in a word, tell us not of love for another but of a self-love in which the other figures only as a means to an end, that end being his own gratification.
• Unlike the lover, the husband does not think, feel, and speak in perpetual hyperboles.
• After this, let us no longer smile at the furious hyperboles of Della Crusca upon Mrs.
• Lady Walsingham would have qualified two or three of the more highly-coloured hyperboles, at which the Golden Friars of those days sniffed and tittered.
• Yet even in history, Longinus quotes Herodotus on this occasion of hyperboles.
• Its rhythm, its strong and numerous metaphors, its hyperboles, its violent inversions, are simply exaggerations of the traits of excited speech.
• I must keep my hyperboles in reserve for men of other understandings.
• These hyperboles were expressed in Latin, and Vitellius accepted them impassively.
• He does not describe in pictures, like Rossetti and Morris, but by metaphors, comparisons, and hyperboles.
• I have heard many of the traditions which are very current, but all such hyperboles, that were I to give one, the reader would be convulsed with laughter.

Similar words containing BOLE without suffix s and without prefix hyper

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