We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word litotes:
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 General (27 matching dictionaries)
- litotes: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- litotes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- litotes: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Litotes: Wiktionary [home, info]
- litotes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- litotes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- litotes: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Litotes, litotes: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- litotes: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Litotes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Litotes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- litotes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- litotes: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Litotes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- litotes: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
- litotes: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
- litotes: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- Litotes: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
- litotes: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- litotes: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- litotes: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- litotes: Luciferous Logolepsy [home, info]
- litotes: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- litotes: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- litotes: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- litotes: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- litotes: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]
Art (6 matching dictionaries)
- litotes: Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric [home, info]
- Litotes: Glossary of English Grammar Terms [home, info]
- Litotes: Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples [home, info]
- litotes: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
- Litotes: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices [home, info]
- LITOTES: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- litotes: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- litotes: A Word A Day [home, info]
- litotes: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (litotes)
▸ noun: 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")
▸ Also see litotes
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