UNDERSTATEMENT as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said
   Hypernyms(s) understatement is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • statement (what does statement mean?)
   Antonym(s)
   • exaggeration (what does exaggeration mean?)
   • overstatement (what does overstatement mean?)
   • magnification (what does magnification mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • litotes (what does litotes mean?)
   • meiosis (what does meiosis mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • understate (what does understate mean?)
   • minimize (what does minimize mean?)
   • minimise (what does minimise mean?)
   • downplay (what does downplay mean?)