LITOTES as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
   Synonym(s)
   • meiosis (what does meiosis mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • saying `I was not a little upset” when you mean `I was very upset” is an example of litotes
   Hypernyms(s) litotes is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • rhetorical device (what does rhetorical device mean?)
   • understatement (what does understatement mean?)