Sunday Rest: exaggerative. Word Not To Use Today.

 If the world truly has a need for the word exaggerative then I do not know what it is, and I just wish that people would forget about the blasted thing.

Sunday Rest: exaggerative. This word first appeared in 1797, but very nearly all the millions of English-speakers who have lived since then have shunned it entirely, thus demonstrating the good taste of the general populace, and providing us with an example which we would all do well to follow.

The word came from France, and before that from the Latin word exaggerāre, to magnify, from aggerāre, to heap, from agger, heap.