This Lexvo.org page describes the entity referred to by the URI http://lexvo.org/id/wordnet/30/noun/litotes_1_10_00. A machine-readable RDF version of this description is provided here.
| rdfs:comment | 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" ('en' language string) |
| rdfs:label | litotes ('en' language string) |
| rdfs:label | meiosis ('en' language string) |
| lvont:broader | lexvo:wordnet/30/noun/rhetorical_device_1_10_00 |
| lvont:broader | lexvo:wordnet/30/noun/understatement_1_10_00 |
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/litotes |
| lvont:label | lexvo:term/eng/meiosis |
| lvont:nearlySameAs | http://purl.org/vocabularies/princeton/wn30/synset-litotes-noun-2 |
| skos:note | This resource corresponds to the meaning of the gloss text. It shares its meaning with that of the synonym set rather than denoting the WordNet synset. ('en' language string) |
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