understatement — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

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.

   Gebrauch

   • rhetoric
   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

   Synonyme

   meiosis

   Antonyme

   auxesishyperbole

   Beispiele

   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.

   Gebrauch

   • zählbar
   • usually

   Synonyme

   trivialization

   Antonyme

   exaggerationoverstatement

   Beispiele

   Now that's an understatement.

3. An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.

   Gebrauch

   • nicht zählbar
   • usually

Substantiv

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

   Antonyme

   overstatement

   Oberbegriffe

   statement