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Dictionary entry overview: What does overstatement mean?
• OVERSTATEMENT (noun)
The noun OVERSTATEMENT has 1 sense:
1. making to seem more important than it really is
Familiarity information: OVERSTATEMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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Making to seem more important than it really is
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("overstatement" is a kind of...):
understatement (a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said)
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