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

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Socrates