Boost your vocab and unleash your potential!

Recently viewed words:
Definitions of understatement
  1. noun
    a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
    Opposite:
    type of:
Definition that contains understatement
  • meiosis understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
  • litotes understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
My lists:
Recently viewed words: