understatement

understatement /'ʌndə'steitmənt/
  • danh từ
    • sự nói bớt, sự nói giảm đi; sự nói không đúng sự thật
    • báo cáo không đúng sự thật

Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): statement, understatement, state, overstate, understated



understatement

Từ điển Collocation

understatement noun

ADJ. gross ‘A little strange’ is a gross understatement.

PHRASES a bit of/something of an understatement, the understatement of the year (informal) To say he wasn't amused must be the understatement of the year.


Từ điển WordNet

    n.

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

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

understatements
ant.: overstatement