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hyperbolic

adjective

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Marked by exaggerated language; in mathematics, relating to a hyperbola or certain related structures.

Calling a short queue an endless ordeal was a hyperbolic description.
Dictionary practice example.
A hyperbolic blurb claimed that the seminar's new story would make every previous tale vanish from readers' memories.
From The Scale of a Story.
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