Litotes

//laɪˈtəʊ.tiːz//

Synonyms for "litotes" (22 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

7 relation types

Translations

29 translations across 21 languages.

Powered by Wiktionary

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • λιτότης noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Catalan

1 entries
  • lítote noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Czech

1 entries
  • litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Dutch

1 entries
  • litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Esperanto

2 entries
  • litoto noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • maltroigo noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Finnish

1 entries
  • litoteesi noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

French

1 entries
  • litote noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

German

1 entries
  • Litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Greek

1 entries
  • λιτότητα noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Ido

1 entries
  • litoto noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Irish

1 entries
  • liotóid noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Italian

1 entries
  • litote noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Manx

1 entries
  • fo-raa noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries
  • litot noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Polish

2 entries
  • litota noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Russian

1 entries
  • лито́та noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • litota noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • литота noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Sicilian

2 entries
  • litoti noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • lìtuti noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Spanish

4 entries
  • litote noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • litotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • lítote noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)
  • lítotes noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • makumbaba noun (rhetoric: stating a point by denying its opposite)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: wiktionary

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.