İngilizce'de understatement ne anlama geliyor ve understatement'nin tanımı nedir?

Bu en yetkili İngilizce Sözlükte understatement Telaffuz, Dilbilgisi ve Eşanlamlıları öğrenebilirsiniz.

understatement ne demek

0 a statement in which you say that something is less extreme than it really is -- olduğundan daha az/hafif vb. gösterme, azımsama, azımsama ifadesi
- 'Quite big', did you say? That's an understatement - he's enormous!

In this harmonically very unpretentious movement the composer achieves genuine poetry through understatement and delicate sculpting, especially of the sinuous line for solo alto.
To say that the object permanence literature is an unwieldy one is something of an understatement.
Otherwise, the editors' claim is that 'it can be used for a wider range of purposes than most conventional grammars', is something of an understatement.
Most readers of the book will be convinced that this is a clear understatement.
To say that they were lucky is somewhat of an understatement!
To brand such "treatment" as subhuman is an understatement.
Many of the examples involve irony, sarcasm, satire, understatement, or hyperbole, requiring the listener to figure out what the nonliteral intention of the speaker is.
To say that it mediated action between construction and autonomy is an understatement and depends too much on the ambiguous definition of mediation.