understatement

Noun
  1. A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said (synset 106771774)
    is a type of: statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc
    subtypes: litotes, meiosis - understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

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