'Understatement' definitions:
Definition of 'understatement'
From: WordNet
noun
A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said [ant: exaggeration, magnification, overstatement]
Definition of 'Understatement'
From: GCIDE
- Understatement \Un"der*state`ment\, n. The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'understatement'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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