Associations to the word «Hyperbole»

Wiktionary

HYPERBOLE, noun. (uncountable) (rhetoric) (literature) Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.
HYPERBOLE, noun. (countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.
HYPERBOLE, noun. (countable) (obsolete) A hyperbola.

Dictionary definition

HYPERBOLE, noun. Extravagant exaggeration.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats