Exaggerate vs Machismo - What's the difference?
exaggerate | machismo |
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
exaggerated masculinity
* Germaine Greer:
As a verb exaggerate
is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.As a noun machismo is
exaggerated masculinity.exaggerate
English
Verb
(exaggerat)- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.
Synonyms
* overexaggerate * overstateAntonyms
* (overstate) downplay, understateDerived terms
* exaggeratedly * exaggeratingly * exaggerative * exaggeratively * exaggerativeness * exaggerator * exaggeratoryExternal links
* * * English transitive verbs ----machismo
English
Noun
(-)- The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.