| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration.[Websters]
2. Being hyperbolic, steep or extortionate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being bombastic, declamatory, grandiloquent, overblown or high-sounding. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb exaggeratively.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (exaggeratively) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective exaggerative.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "EXAGGERATIVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
