OVERSTATEMENT Synonyms

• extravagant exaggeration

• the act of expanding something in apparent size

• the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object

• making to seem more important than it really is

• a photographic print that has been enlarged

• addition of extra material or illustration or clarifying detail

• the amount of increase in signal power or voltage or current expressed as the ratio of output to input

• (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current

• elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail

• a superfluous ornament

• the act of adding extraneous decorations to something

• a general and progressive increase in prices

• (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang

• lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity

• the act of filling something with air

• too much emphasis

• an appraisal that is too high

• a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high

• the capability to obliterate a target with more weapons (especially nuclear weapons) than are required

• any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal