exaggerate
/ɛɡˈzæd͡ʒ.ə.ɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.19 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate!"
- "He said he’d slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he’s exaggerating. The real number is about ten."
- "These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics."
- "And in general, if it is a natural feeling, let it be, but at normal, living levels, not too exaggerate."
- "Water was invading, like some loving arms, some protecting wings, but its love and care were too exaggerate, they were deadly."
- "You will leave [the camp] and when confronted to the smallest inconvenience you will have again these reactions that, for me, are very exaggerate."
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exaggerātus, perfect passive participle of exaggerō (“to heap up, increase, enlarge, magnify, amplify, exaggerate”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ex- (“out, up”) + aggerō, aggerāre (“to heap up”), from agger (“a pile, heap, mound, dike, mole, pier, etc.”), from aggerō, aggerere (“to bear, carry to (some place), bring together”), from ad- (“to, toward”) + gerō (“to carry”).
Inflected Forms
exaggerates (present, singular)
exaggerating (participle, present)
exaggerated (participle, past)
exaggerated (past)
more exaggerate (comparative)
most exaggerate (superlative)