litotes
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Is litotes a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.Examples: "The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes."Synonyms: antenantiosis, meiosis, moderatourAntonyms: hyperbolecountablerhetoricuncountable
2. (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite.Synonyms: antenantiosis, meiosis, moderatourAntonyms: hyperbolecountableespeciallyrhetoricuncountable
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