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Showing words for LITOTES using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Litotes

litotes, toilets

6 Letter Words for Litotes

estoil, litote, lottes, sottie, stilet, titles, toiles, toilet, tolite

5 Letter Words for Litotes

islet, islot, istle, liest, lites, lotes, lotte, slite, slote, solei, sotie, steil, stile, stilt, stite, stoit, stole, teils, teloi, telos, tiles, tilts, title, toile, toils, toise, toist, toits, toles, tolts, totes

4 Letter Words for Litotes

elts, ilot, isle, itel, leis, leos, lest, leto, lets, lett, lies, list, lite, lits, lose, lost, lote, loti, lots, oils, oles, otis, seil, seit, selt, sett, sile, silo, silt, siol, site, slit, sloe, slot, soil, sole, stet, stie, stot, teil, teli, tels, telt, test, tets, ties, tile, tils, tilt, tite, tits, toes, toil, toit, tole, tolt, tose, tote, tots

3 Letter Words for Litotes

eli, els, elt, eos, est, ile, ilo, ios, ise, isl, iso, ist, its, lei, leo, les, let, lie, lis, lit, loe, los, lot, lst, oes, oie, oil, ois, ole, ose, osi, sei, sel, set, sie, sil, sit, sle, slt, sol, sot, tel, tes, tet, tie, til, tis, tit, tlo, toe, toi, tol, tos, tot, tsi, tst

Definitions for Litotes

[1] understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”
[2] understatement for rhetorical effect, esp when achieved by using negation with a term in place of using an antonym of that term, as in "She was not a little upset" for "She was extremely upset."

Words related to Litotes

distortion, restraint, underestimate, allegory, allusion, analogy, anticlimax, antithesis, bathos, comparison, conceit, device, euphemism, euphuism, exaggeration, expression, flourish, flower, hyperbole, image

Words nearby Litotes

litigator, litigious, litmus, litmus paper, litmus test, litotes, litre, litt. b., litt. d., litt.m., littb

Origin of Litotes

1650–60; < New Latin < Greek lītótēs orig., plainness, simplicity, derivative of lītós plain, small, meager

Word origin for Litotes

C17: from Greek, from litos small

Synonyms for Litotes

distortion, restraint, underestimate