HOW TO PRONOUNCE
hyperbole
/haɪˈpɝbəli/
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Hear the ending as two syllables.
Stress the second syllable. The ending sounds like uh-lee, and hy sounds like high.
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“That description is hyperbole.”
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Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 ↗What does hyperbole mean?
noun
- Deliberate overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
- An instance or example of such overstatement.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) A hyperbola.
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IPA pronunciation
/haɪˈpɝbəli/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
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After seeing the wreck of a book which these persons have been busy with, one appreciates the fine Greek hyperbole.
A quick and earnest way of speaking, as mine is, is apt to run into hyperbole.
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What had been poetic intensity became all at once rhetorical hyperbole.
“I’d marry the W–––– of Babylon rather than do anything dishonourable! No reflection on you, my dear. It is a mere rhetorical figure—what they call in the books, hyperbole.”
And if he resorted to hyperbole at times in his advertisements, it was always his boast that no one ever went away from his Museum, without having received the worth of his money.