Crossword-Solution: LITOTES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Litotes | n. | A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, " a citizen of no mean city," that is, of an illustrious city. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LITOTES | anagram | TOILETS, TOLITES, TSELIOT |
We have 22 clues for the answer “LITOTES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "A citizen of no mean city." | 1 answer |
| Understatement: Rhet. | 1 answer |
| Understatement: A figure of speech. | 1 answer |
| Understatement to increase effect. | 1 answer |
| Understatement for rhetorical effect | 1 answer |
| Understatement for effect | 1 answer |
| Understated figure of speech, in rhetoric | 1 answer |
| Rhetorical understatement. | 1 answer |
| Rhetorical form. | 1 answer |
| Rhetorical expression such as "not bad at all." | 1 answer |
| Rhetorical device like "not half bad" or "not too shabby" | 1 answer |
| Literary understatement | 1 answer |
| Hamlet's not a bad play e.g. | 1 answer |
| Figure of speech that employs ironic understatement | 1 answer |
| Figure of speech like "not unlike" | 1 answer |
| Figure of speech like "no mean feat" | 1 answer |
| Affirmation by the negation of the opposite. | 1 answer |
| ... using ___: "Mary had no giant lamb / Its fleece was not unwhite" | 1 answer |
| "Not too shabby" and "no ordinary love," e.g. | 1 answer |
| "Not too bad" for "very good" | 1 answer |
| meiosis | 2 answers |
| Understatement | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with LITOTES (4)
The delicacy which prompts a later generation to reject that name is by no means necessarily a result of stricter habits, is far more often due to the flatness which comes of untiring repetition and to the greater piquancy of litotes.
The use of _tmesis, asyndeton, anacoluthon, aposiopesis, hyperbaton, hyperbole, litotes_, in Latin oratory and poetry.
Who knows the demi-volt, the caracole, the curvet, the capriole or the rest of the Seven Movements? Who is elegant in the High Manege or Raised Airs? Who prances for the sheer delight of gallant rhetoric, on Litotes, Asteism or Onomatopoeia? Fain would I be bedevilled, but the Magi are passed away.
Footnote 388: Not in its usual equivalence with _litotes_, but in the sense of cursory and elliptic reference.
Quotes with LITOTES (1)
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1942–2019).