hyperbole
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General noun
Deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis or rhetorical effect and not meant to be taken literally.
'I've told you a million times' is hyperbole, not a literal count.
Business noun
Deliberate exaggeration used for effect rather than literal truth.
The tagline's hyperbole, 'the best coffee in the universe', was playful enough to charm rather than mislead.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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