Word Meanings - OVERSTATEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An exaggerated statement or account.

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• ACCOUNTANTSHIP
  The office or employment of an accountant.
• ACCOUNTANCY
  The art or employment of an accountant.
• EXAGGERATOR
  One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.
• EXAGGERATIVE
  Tending to exaggerate; involving exaggeration. "Exaggerative language." Geddes. "Exaggerative pictures." W. J. Linton. -- Ex*ag"ger*a*tive*ly, adv. Carlyle.
• ACCOUNTABILITY
  The state of being accountable; liability to be called on to render an account; accountableness. "The awful idea of accountability." R. Hall.
• EXAGGERATION
  A representation of things beyond natural life, in expression, beauty, power, vigor. (more info) 1. The act of heaping or piling up. "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale. 2. The act of exaggerating; the act of doing or representing in an excessive
• ACCOUNTABLE
  1. Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct. 2. Capable of being accounted for; explicable. True religion . . . intelligible, rational, and accountable, -- not a burden
• ACCOUNT BOOK
  A book in which accounts are kept. Swift.
• EXAGGERATED
  Enlarged beyond bounds or the truth. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ted*ly, adv.
• EXAGGERATE
  up; ex out + aggerare to heap up, fr. agger heap, aggerere to bring 1. To heap up; to accumulate. "Earth exaggerated upon them ." Sir M. Hale. 2. To amplify; to magnify; to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth ; to delineate extravagantly ; to
• EXAGGERATORY
  Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.
• ACCOUNTABLENESS
  The quality or state of being accountable; accountability.
• ACCOUNTABLY
  In an accountable manner.
• ACCOUNT
  1. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time. A beggarly account of empty boxes. Shak. 2. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings
• STATEMENT
  1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case. 2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. "Admirable
• EXAGGERATING
  That exaggerates; enlarging beyond bounds. -- Ex*ag"ger*a`ting*ly, adv.
• ACCOUNTANT
  1. One who renders account; one accountable. 2. A reckoner. 3. One who is skilled in, keeps, or adjusts, accounts; an officer in a public office, who has charge of the accounts. Accountatn general, the head or superintending accountant in certain
• REINSTATEMENT
  The act of reinstating; the state of being reinstated; re
• OVERSTATEMENT
  An exaggerated statement or account.
• UNDERSTATEMENT
  The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.
• UNACCOUNTABILITY
  The quality or state of being unaccountable.
• MISSTATEMENT
  An incorrect statement.