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How to pronounce “understatement”
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Pronunciation guide for understatement
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of understatement with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- 6LACK & Syreeta Butler
I know it's not an understatement.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
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How to pronounce understatement
6LACK & Syreeta Butler
I know it's not an understatement.
Example Sentences
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable, rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is made to seem smaller or less important than it actually is, either through phrasing or lack of emphasis, often for ironic effect.
- (countable) An instance of such phrasing or lack of emphasis; an incomplete statement.
- An incomplete disclosure that intentionally withholds relevant information.
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