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litotes

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Main Entry: figure of speech
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: turn of expression

Synonyms:

adumbration, allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogue, analogy, anaphora, anticlimax, antistrophe, antithesis, aposiopesis, apostrophe, asyndeton, bathos, communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device, comparison, conceit, device, echoism, ellipsis, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image, imagery, irony, litotes, malapropism, manner of speaking, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, ornament, oxymoron, parable, paradox, parallel, personification, proteron, rhetoric, sarcasm, satire, simile, synecdoche, trope, tropology, turn of phrase, understatement, way of speaking
Main Entry: understatement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: restrained statement

Synonyms:

belittlement, distortion, irony, litotes, oversimplification, sarcasm, underestimation

Antonyms:

exaggeration, hyperbole, overstatement
Main Entry: understatement
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: restrained statement

Synonyms:

distortion, litotes, restraint, underestimate

Antonyms:

exaggeration, overstatement
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