07104292-n 'understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)';
 
Chinese (simplified) 间接 肯定法 , 曲言法 , 反言法 , 间接肯定法
Inggeris litotes , meiosis
Bahasa Indonesia litotes
Italian litote
Japanese 減数分裂
Definitions
Japanese
修辞的効果の控えめな表現（特に相反するものを否定することによって肯定を表現するとき）
― あなたが『私は非常に動揺していた』ことが緩叙法の例であると言っているとき『私は、少し動揺しいた』と言うこと
Inggeris
understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)
― saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes
Relations
Hypernym: understatement rhetorical_device
Semantic Field: communicationn
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