understatement — قاموس الإنجليزية

اسم

1. A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.

   الاستعمال

   • rhetoric
   • غير معدود
   • usually

   مرادفات

   meiosis

   الأضداد

   auxesishyperbole

   أمثلة

   A master of understatement

   And that mode of expression is very demurring and self-deprecating. Victorian English was all about understatement.

2. An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis; an incomplete statement.

   الاستعمال

   • معدود
   • usually

   مرادفات

   trivialization

   الأضداد

   exaggerationoverstatement

   أمثلة

   Now that's an understatement.

3. An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.

   الاستعمال

   • غير معدود
   • usually

اسم

1. a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said

   الأضداد

   overstatement

   مصطلحات أعمّ

   statement