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
Yet as he does not weep seas of tears, nor utter sighs of fire, he has the merit of avoiding the affected allusions and hyperbolical exaggerations of his brethren.
From A History of English Poetry: an Unpublished Continuation by Thomas Warton
We are no longer deceived by hyperbolical exaggeration, or inflamed by unsparing invective; the ideal personage of the satirist is compared with the real one of the historian, and we touch only delicate truths.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
The hyperbolical phraseology of the title-page is quite in the taste of the day, and is exceeded by the quarto editions of some of Shakspeare's admitted works.
From A Letter on Shakspere's Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen and on the characteristics of Shakspere's style and the secret of his supremacy by William Spalding
