understate

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Определение understate в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь: {f} küçük söylemek; küçümsemek; olduğundan eksik göster; hafife almak; {f} olduğundan eksik/hafif göstermek; olduğundan eksik veya hafif göstermek; hafif göster; understatement bir şeyi olduğundan hafif gösteren ifade; {f} olduğundan az göstermek; tefrit etmek
understatement: tefrit
understatement: (anlatmaya) yetersiz kalan ifade
understatement: {i} az gösterme
understatement: {i} olduğundan küçük gösterme
understatement: {i} bir şeyi olduğundan hafif gösteren ifade

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Определение understate в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь: to state a quantity that is too low; to state something with less completeness than needed; to minimise or downplay; to state something with a lack of emphasis, in order to express irony; to fail to put strongly enough, as a case; To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully; {f} represent less strongly than what the facts would justify, express too weakly, state restrainedly; represent as less significant or important; If you understate something, you describe it in a way that suggests that it is less important or serious than it really is. The government chooses deliberately to understate the increase in prices overstate, exaggerate. to describe something in a way that makes it seem less important or serious than it really is overstate
understated: Restrained and unpretentious
understated: Simple past tense and past participle of understate
understatement: restraint or lack of emphasis, especially for ironic effect
understatement: a disclosure or statement that is less than complete
understated: exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated
understated: If you describe a style, colour, or effect as understated, you mean that it is not obvious. I have always liked understated clothes -- simple shapes which take a lot of hard work to get right. his typically understated humour. = subtle. an understated style is one that is attractive because it is simple and does not have too many decorations = subtle
understated: exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated"
understatement: - a figure of speech that says something less than is actually intended
understatement: a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
understatement: {i} representing something less strongly than what the facts would justify, statement expressing something in a restrained manner
understatement: The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth
understatement: The ironic minimizing of fact, understatement presents something as less significant than it is The effect can frequently be humorous
understatement: The opposite of hyperbole, understatement (or litotes) refers to a figure of speech that says less than is intended Understatement usually has an ironic effect, and sometimes may be used for comic purposes, as in Mark Twain’s statement, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated " See also hyperbole, irony
understatement: Understatement is the practice of suggesting that things have much less of a particular quality than they really have. He informed us with massive understatement that he was feeling disappointed. typical British understatement
understatement: If you say that a statement is an understatement, you mean that it does not fully express the extent to which something is true. To say I'm disappointed is an understatement He was getting very hard to live with, and that's the understatement of the year