Understatement vs. Hyperbole: What's the Difference?

A disclosure or statement that is less than complete.

A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

Restraint or lack of emphasis in expression, as for rhetorical effect.

Deliberate or unintentional overstatement, particularly extreme overstatement.

Restraint in artistic expression.

(countable) An instance or example of such overstatement.

A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.

A hyperbola.

(countable) An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis.

A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.

Extravagant exaggeration

The act of understating, or the condition of being understated; that which is understated; a statement below the truth.

A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said