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Definition of Understatement. Understatement is way of speaking which minimizes the significance of something. When using understatement, a speaker or writer often employs restraint in describing the situation at hand and uses an expression with less emphasis or strength than would be expected.
noun. Ironical understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary (e.g. I shanât be sorry for I shall be glad). Example sentences. 1  Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes, or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony. Yet this definition fails to explain instances of litotes, or understatement, which is often classified as a kind of irony. 2  First one must register his anti-Idealism, his antipathy toward the idea becoming metonymical litotes for such.