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understatement(dictionary)

understatement (oh)



[C] 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 .
::'It wasn't very easy to find the house.' 'That's got to be the understatement of the year !'
[U] the practice of making something seem to have less of a particular quality than it really has
with understatement
::'We have not done quite well enough,' Macmillan said, with characteristic understatement.