understatement
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Is understatement a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, rhetoric) 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.Examples: "A master of understatement"; "And that mode of expression is very demurring and self-deprecating. Victorian English was all about understatement."Synonyms: meiosisAntonyms: auxesis, hyperbolerhetoricuncountableusually
2. (countable) An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis; an incomplete statement.Examples: "Now that's an understatement."Synonyms: trivializationAntonyms: exaggeration, overstatementcountableusually
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