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overexaggerated

overexaggerated is the simple past and past participle of overexaggerate.

Meaning of overexaggerate

Verb

overexaggerate (third-person singular simple present overexaggerates, present participle overexaggerating, simple past and past participle overexaggerated)

  1. To exaggerate, to overstate excessively.
    • "That math test was so hard, nobody could have passed it! Albert Einstein couldn't have done it! Our professor probably had no idea how to solve those equations! I mean-"

Adjective

overexaggerated

  1. (uncommon) Exaggerated excessively.

Origin of overexaggerated

From overexaggerate + -ed.

From over- + exaggerated.

Questions about overexaggerated

What does overexaggerated mean?
Overexaggerated means exaggerated excessively.
What is overexaggerated the simple past and past participle of?
Overexaggerated is the simple past and past participle of overexaggerate.
What part of speech is overexaggerated?
Overexaggerated is an adjective.

Words near overexaggerated in the dictionary

  1. overevaluation
  2. overevaluations
  3. overexact
  4. overexactness
  5. overexaggerate
  6. overexaggerated
  7. overexaggerates
  8. overexaggerating
  9. overexaggeration
  10. overexaggerations
  11. overexamined

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overexaggerated (page history and authors); overexaggerate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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