to say I am delighted is an understatement |
he spoke with a delightful degree of understatement:
minimization, trivialization, euphemism;
understatedness, restraint, reserve, underplaying, underemphasis;
subtlety, delicacy;
technical litotes, meiosis.
▷antonyms overstatement, exaggeration.
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