Antonyms of noun understatement

1 sense of understatement

Sense 1
understatement -- (a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said)
       Antonym of overstatement (Sense 1)
      => exaggeration, overstatement, magnification -- (making to seem more important than it really is)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun understatement

1 sense of understatement

Sense 1
understatement -- (a statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said)
       => statement -- (a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day")