Associations to the word «Understatement»
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Wiktionary
UNDERSTATEMENT, noun. An incomplete statement, particularly:
UNDERSTATEMENT, noun. (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; meiosis.
UNDERSTATEMENT, noun. An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.
UNDERSTATEMENT, noun. An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
Dictionary definition
UNDERSTATEMENT, noun. A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.