category:litotes

緩叙法・曲言法 (litotes)

緩叙法・曲言法 (litotes)

Page Type Category
Category ID litotes
Superordiantes
Synonyms

Definition

事物を控え目に言い,かえって表現を効果的にする言い方

Subordinate Categories

Features

Functions

Examples in the Literature

* not half bad (=very good)(大いに)

References

* 『大修館英語学事典』(松浪有・池上嘉彦・今井邦彦[編] /大修館)

Examples in the Corpus
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