exaggerative

American  

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

Also exaggeratory

adjective

1. tending to exaggerate; involving or characterized by exaggeration.

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Other Word Forms

• exaggeratively adverb
• nonexaggerative adjective
• nonexaggeratory adjective
• unexaggerative adjective
• unexaggeratory adjective

Etymology

Origin of exaggerative

First recorded in 1790–1800; exaggerate + -ive

Example Sentences

And thus especially we say that the Yellow Press is exaggerative, over-emotional, illiterate, and anarchical, and a hundred other long words; whereas the only objection to it is that it tells lies.

From All Things Considered by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

The two, to the dim eye of Idle, far below, look in the exaggerative mist, like a pair of friendly giants, mounting the steps of some invisible castle together. 

From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens, Charles

From the use of superlative expressions in their conversation, they naturally adopt an exaggerative style in writing, and the minor poets and provincial orators of the Republic are distinguished for this hyperbolical tone.

From Nature and Human Nature by Haliburton, Thomas Chandler

This is extravagantly exaggerative; and those who say it, moreover, often miss the two or three points of resemblance which really exist in the exaggeration.

From The Crimes of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Above all, I shall probably make generalisations that are much too general; and are insufficient through being exaggerative.

From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)