Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word EXAGGERATED

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Definitions of EXAGGERATED

1. That has been described as greater than it actually is; abnormally increased or enlarged.
2. inflection of exaggerate

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Examples of Using EXAGGERATED in a Sentence

• These chronicles include legends and myths, as well as potential historical facts that have since been exaggerated and/or distorted over time.
• Environmental skepticism is the belief that statements by environmentalists, and the environmental scientists who support them, are false or exaggerated.
• His work began to appear in the 1770s, and he rose to prominence in the early 1790s with his portraits of beauties with exaggerated, elongated features.
• He became a frontier legend in his own lifetime through biographies and news articles; exaggerated versions of his exploits were the subject of dime novels.
• Pseudoscience is often characterized by contradictory, exaggerated or unfalsifiable claims; reliance on confirmation bias rather than rigorous attempts at refutation; lack of openness to evaluation by other experts; absence of systematic practices when developing hypotheses; and continued adherence long after the pseudoscientific hypotheses have been experimentally discredited.
• Slapstick is a style of humor involving exaggerated physical activity that exceeds the boundaries of normal physical comedy.
• Banneker became a folk-hero after his death, leading to many accounts of his life being exaggerated or embellished.
• The highly stylized costumes, exaggerated acting, minimal sets, and absence of all but the most necessary props make for a screen image much more focused on atmosphere and on conveying a sense of the characters' individual heightened desires than on conventional plot development.
• Like his brother, Luigi's distinctive characteristics include his large nose and mustache, overalls, green hat, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent.
• By the early 2020s, scholarship has suggested that Shays's role in the protests was significantly and strategically exaggerated by Massachusetts elites, who had a political interest in shifting blame for bad economic conditions away from themselves.
• Farce is a comedy that seeks to entertain an audience through situations that are highly exaggerated, extravagant, ridiculous, absurd, and improbable.
• The show stars Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rip Torn and features celebrities playing exaggerated, parodic versions of themselves.
• However, greatly exaggerated speeds are often claimed in popular literature, based on unreliable or outdated reports.
• The ceremony was exaggerated by the enemies of the Ronsardists into a renewal of the pagan rites of the worship of Bacchus.
• While the term was defined originally to mean "methods and attitudes typical of or attributed to natural scientists", some scholars, as well as political and religious leaders, have also adopted it as a pejorative term with the meaning "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences, and the humanities)".
• Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a life-long pattern of exaggerated feelings of self-importance, an excessive need for admiration, and a diminished ability to empathize with other people's feelings.
• Although this 17th-century propaganda was based in real events from the Spanish colonization of the Americas, which involved atrocities, the theory of the Leyenda Negra suggests that it often employed lurid and exaggerated depictions of violence, and ignored similar behavior by other powers.
• Playing an air guitar usually consists of exaggerated strumming and picking motions, and is often coupled with loud singing or lip-synching.
• Some of the lower jaws probably represent the same animals as some of the upper, so the diversity of Paulchoffatiids is very possibly exaggerated.
• alt=Four-member band in blackface make-up playing tambourine, fiddle, banjo and percussion in exaggerated poses.

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