Word Meanings - AMPLIFICATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification.

Additional info about word: AMPLIFICATION

The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies. 3. The matter by which a statement is amplified; as, the subject was presented without amplifications. (more info) 1. The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMPLIFICATION)

• Augmentation
• Increase
• enlargement
• amplification
• enrichment
• supply
• enhancement
• addition
• acquisition
• improvement

Related words: (words related to AMPLIFICATION)

• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• ACQUISITION
  1. The act or process of acquiring. The acquisition or loss of a province. Macaulay. 2. The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition. Syn. -- See Acquirement.
• ADDITIONALLY
  By way of addition.
• INCREASE
  To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases. Increasing function , a function whose value increases when that of the variable increases, and decreases when the latter is diminished. Syn. -- To enlarge;
• AUGMENTATION
  A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. Cussans. (more info) 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase. 2. The state of being augmented; enlargement. 3. The thing
• INCREASEMENT
  Increase. Bacon.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• ADDITIONAL
  Added; supplemental; in the way of an addition.
• IMPROVEMENT
  Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
• INCREASER
  One who, or that, increases.
• ADDITIONARY
  Additional. Herbert.
• ENRICHMENT
  The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
• INCREASEFUL
  Full of increase; abundant in produce. "Increaseful crops." Shak.
• AMPLIFICATION
  The enlarging of a simple statement by particularity of description, the use of epithets, etc., for rhetorical effect; diffuse narrative or description, or a dilating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• SURADDITION
  Something added or appended, as to a name. Shak.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• SUPERADDITION
  The act of adding something in excess or something extraneous; also, something which is added in excess or extraneously. This superaddition is nothing but fat. Arbuthnot.
• OVERSUPPLY
  To supply in excess.
• MISIMPROVEMENT
  Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
• DISIMPROVEMENT
  Reduction from a better to a worse state; as, disimprovement of the earth.