understatement

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un‧der‧state‧ment /ˌʌndəˈsteɪtmənt $ -dər-/ BrE AmE noun
[Word Family: verb: ↑state, ↑understate ≠ ↑overstate; noun: ↑statement, ↑understatement ≠ ↑overstatement; adjective: ↑understated ≠ OVERSTATED]
1. [countable] 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!’
2. [uncountable] 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.

understatementhu

◎	['ʌndəsteitmənt]
※	danh từ
	■	(hành động hoặc thói quen) nói bớt đi; (hành động hoặc thói quen) nói nhẹ đi
		☆	a clever use of understatement
			sự sử dụng khéo léo lối nói bớt đi (để gây ấn tượng..)
		☆	to say that he was hot-tempered is an understatement
			bảo rằng nó nóng tính là đã nói nhẹ đi so với thực tế (vì đúng ra phải nói là nó xấc láo)

• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  exaggeration, overstatement, magnification