Illustration: At a kitchen table, an adult displays a fingertip with a barely visible paper nick while reclining dramatically against the chair back, the other hand pressed to their forehead. A comically large heap of unused bandage rolls covers the table.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

大おおげさ

oogesa

exaggerated, overblown

Example sentences

その老人ろうじんはおおげさに言いう傾向けいこうがある。
The old man tends to exaggerate.
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彼かれは被害ひがいを大おおげさに言いう。
He exaggerates the harm done.
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彼かれの話はなしはそうとう大袈裟おおげさだ。
His story is highly colored.
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Kanji in 大

大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい

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