Understatement synonyms | nouns

Synonyms for Understatement as a Noun

• restraint

  restrained statement, understatedness
• litotes

  technical, restrained statement
• euphemism

  minimization
• underestimate

  restrained statement
• underestimation
• minimization
• distortion

  restrained statement
• trivialization

  minimization
• understatedness
• reserve

  understatedness
• underplaying

  understatedness
• underemphasis

  understatedness
• subtlety
• delicacy

  subtlety
• meiosis

  technical, litotes
• euphuism
• polite term
• substitute
• genteelism
• irony
• sarcasm
• oxymoron
• indirect term
• adumbration
• allegory
• allusion
• analogy
• anticlimax
• antithesis
• bathos
• comparison
• conceit
• device
• exaggeration
• expression
• flourish
• flower
• hyperbole
• image
• imagery
• metaphor
• ornament
• parable
• paradox
• parallel
• personification
• rhetoric
• satire
• simile
• analogue