Referring to an exaggerated statement or a description of something in a way that makes it seem better, worse, larger, more important, etc. than it really is: Little Tony had a hyperbolic or inflated way of talking to his friends in primary school, saying that his father could hit a baseball so high and far that it couldn't be seen again, or that he had the most beautiful mother in the world! © ALL rights are reserved.

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