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

We may say with no exaggerative irony that the unconscious patrons of slavery were Huxley and Cobden.

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

Doubtless it will seem so, yet the statement is not exaggerative by any means, but is made in my serious and sincere conviction. 

From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles

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)

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

It is either something which does not need any grotesque and exaggerative description, or of which there already exists a grotesque and exaggerative description more native to our tongue and soil.

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