Word for overusing superlatives and hyperbolic speech
2016年9月16日 · Superlatives, hyperbole, and hyperbolical speech in the extreme! What I am looking for is the general descriptor of the routinely repeated usage of this extremely over-exaggerated, hyperbolical speech found in one's daily communications. (Exaggerating or diminishing beyond the fact; exceeding the truth; bordering on delusional)
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I believe there is a term for words such as never, always, constantly, and so forth; words that generally exaggerate the situation being described.
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2022年4月12日 · Used to indicate that some (frequently conventional) metaphorical or hyperbolical expression is to be taken in the strongest admissible sense: ‘virtually, as good as’; (also) ‘completely, utterly, absolutely’.
Superlatives with "the" - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
Example #1: John is the fastest boy. *John is fastest boy. Example #2. John is the fastest among his friends. John is fastest among his friends. As is shown in the examples above, omitting the in #1 causes it to become ungrammatical, as the superlative fastest is in the same phrase as its noun boy. In #2, however, the may be freely omitted as ...
"Rant & rave" usage - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
To “rant,” according to the OED, originally meant “to talk or declaim in an extravagant or hyperbolical manner; to use bombastic language; (esp. of an actor) to orate or speak in a melodramatic or grandiose style.” Later, in the mid-1600s, ranting became angrier. “Rant” came to mean “to speak furiously; to storm or rage violently.”
What is the origin of skinflint and the image it is derived from
2018年1月4日 · It is from the hyperbolical phrase to skin a flint, denoting excessive meanness or the willingness to go to extreme lengths to save or gain something. This is comparable to the French phrase tondre un œuf (to shave an egg), which used to be tondre sur un œuf (to shave on an egg); Randle Cotgrave defined it in A Dictionarie of the French and ...
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2021年6月21日 · 145views. X vs. X-al adjectives (asymptotic vs asymptotical, etc.) Right now I am writing a technical report, where I describe asymptotic(al) curves, expansions etc. My understanding after a bit of web browsing is that asymptotic and asymptotical are near-synonymous ... adjectives. suffixes. morphology. ic-ical.
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2019年10月10日 · (i) Right through the flesh so as to reach the bone. Frequently hyperbolical, or in figurative contexts. Old English usage:(prior to ~ 1300) OE Ælfric Let. to Sigeweard (De Veteri et Novo Test.) (Laud) 61 On weallendum ele he het hine baðian, for ðan þe se hata ele gæð in to ðam bane. And a more modern figurative uasge:
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2012年2月8日 · @Irene‘Archaic or rare’ but, yes, me too. The sense in which you have heard it may possibly that given in definition 1b: ‘in loose or hyperbolical sense: Indefinitely or exceedingly great; exceeding measurement or calculation; immense, vast.’ But the supporting citations show it used chiefly with a singular noun, typically ‘importance’.
Which is correct: "I loaned him some money" or " I lent him some …
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