Understatement Thesaurus / Synonyms

4	restraint
4	underestimate(noun, restraint, oversimplification)
3	litotes(noun, style, restraint, manner, device)
3	underestimation(noun, irony, oversimplification)
2	belittlement
2	distortion
2	figure of speech(noun, expression, idiom, turn)
1	adumbration
1	affirmation
1	anaphora
1	announcement
1	anticlimax
1	antistrophe
1	antithesis
1	aposiopesis
1	apostrophe
1	assertion
1	asyndeton
1	bathos
1	communication that is not meant literally stylistic device

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