Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - understatement
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Understatement
understatement
(understatements) 1. 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. N-COUNT 2. 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. N-UNCOUNT
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1. преуменьшение; занижение 2. сдержанное высказывание to say that the boy is rather clever is an understatement —- сказать, что мальчик имеет недурные способности, это значит не воздать ему должное ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 a statement that is not strong enough to express how good, bad, impressive etc something really is (To say the movie was bad is an understatement.) 2 a way of describing things as being less good, bad, important etc than they really are ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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