understatement — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

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.

   Uso

   • rhetoric
   • no contable
   • usually

   Sinónimos

   meiosis

   Antónimos

   auxesishyperbole

   Ejemplos

   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.

   Uso

   • contable
   • usually

   Sinónimos

   trivialization

   Antónimos

   exaggerationoverstatement

   Ejemplos

   Now that's an understatement.

3. An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.

   Uso

   • no contable
   • usually

Sustantivo

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

   Antónimos

   overstatement

   Términos más generales

   statement