| Main Entry: |
tall talk |
| Part of Speech: |
noun |
| Definition: |
exaggeration |
Synonyms: |
aggrandizement, amplification, baloney, boasting, caricature, coloring, crock, elaboration, embroidery, emphasis, enlargement, exaltation, excess, extravagance, fabrication, falsehood, fancy, fantasy, figure of speech, fish story, flight of fancy, hogwash,
hyperbole, hyperbolism, inflation, jazz,
line*, magnification, misjudgment, misrepresentation, overemphasis, overestimation, overstatement,
pretension, pretentiousness,
rant,
romance,
stretch, tall story, untruth, whopper, yarn
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* = informal/non-formal usage
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