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Noun understatement has 1 sense

• understatement(n = noun.communication) Array - a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said; Array
is a kind of statement
has particulars: litotes, meiosis
Antonym: overstatement
Derived form verb understate₁

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THESAURUS

understatement

abstractionism, coloring, deformation, distortion, exaggeration, expressionism, false coloring, falsification, garbling, hyperbole, inaccuracy, injustice, litotes, miscoloring, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, nonrealism, overdrawing, overstatement, perversion, quietness, restrainedness, restraint, simplicity, slanting, subduedness, twisting, unobtrusiveness

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