understatement — Dicionário de inglês

Substantivo

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
   • incontável
   • usually

   Sinônimos

   meiosis

   Antônimos

   auxesishyperbole

   Exemplos

   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

   • contável
   • usually

   Sinônimos

   trivialization

   Antônimos

   exaggerationoverstatement

   Exemplos

   Now that's an understatement.

3. An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.

   Uso

   • incontável
   • usually

Substantivo

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

   Antônimos

   overstatement

   Termos mais gerais

   statement