hyperbolic

hyperbolic or hyperbolical (ˌhaɪpəˈbɒlɪk)

—*adj*
1.	of or relating to a hyperbola
2.	rhetoric of or relating to a hyperbole

hyperbolical or hyperbolical

—*adj*

hyper'bolically or hyperbolical

—*adv*

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Example sentences

What a disgusting, hyperbolic and ridiculous tactic.

In debates, his attacks on positions he feels are unsupportable can be

hyperbolic.

More importantly, this kind of hyperbolic debate is not good for the science of

paleontology.

Three dimensional adaptive mesh refinement for hyperbolic conservation laws.

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Matching Quote

"Romance, as currently used, then denotes what is unreal or unlikely, or at all events not present, in contrast to what is scientifically true and accessible to the senses here and now. Or it is, in its purest expression, what partakes of the marvelous, the extreme, the unusual. That is why advertisement (in a grotesque and inflated form) is a pure expression of the romantic mind. Indeed, there is nothing so "romantic" as advertisement. Advertisement is the apotheosis of the marvelous and the unusual; likewise of the scientifically untrue. The spirit of advertisement can boost lives and has its feverish being in a world of hyperbolic suggestion; it is also the trance or dreamworld of the hypnotist."

-Wyndham Lewis

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