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

They were evidently not only expansive but exaggerative; and perhaps it was not only in battle that they drew the long bow.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

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)

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

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)

This disappointment was only the natural result of his own impracticable temperament, but to Haydon's exaggerative sense the whole world seemed joined in a conspiracy against him.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George