hyperbolic
adjective
having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
hyperbolical
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a variation of
hyperbolic.
Example Sentences
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Crude WhatsApp exchanges were framed as entirely typical of the style of many on the messaging service; indulging in the "ephemeral, pejorative, hyperbolical" as he put it.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023
"It's easily the most hyperbolical and glitzily exciting festival to be at," says Toback.
From Seattle Times ● May 13, 2013
Is there any possibility of ascertaining, at the present day, to which of the countless dupes of that "quack of quacks" we are indebted for this hyperbolical effusion?
I think I see you—for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences—I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
This circumstance is justly styled by Pope "most extravagantly hyperbolical," but a translator should not have omitted it.
From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope
