hyperbolic

What it means

1. Of or relating to hyperbole.
2. Using hyperbole: exaggerated.

   At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe.

   2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 26 May 2012

   Synonyms: exaggerative

3. color theoryOf a perceived color, having a saturation exceeding 100%.

   1 more example

   Using the techniques already explored, we can contrive to activate a coding triplet in any one of those four extremal corners. If one fixates at length on a pale blue-green stimulus, as in Figure 18, and then refixates on an already maximally saturated orange surface, then the resituated f/p vector will yield an activation triplet within the farthest corner of the cube, beyond the limits of the classical spindle. The H–J theory of our internal color representations entails that one should there find a circular after-image of a hyperbolic orange, an orange that is more "ostentatiously orange" than any (non-self-luminous) orange you have ever seen, or ever will see, as the objective color of a physical object. Row 1 of Figure 19 will allow you, once more, to test such a prediction for yourself.

   2005, Paul Churchland, “Chimerical colors: some phenomenological predictions from cognitive neuroscience”, in Philosophical Psychology, volume 18, number 5, →DOI, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2022, page 553

In a sentence

At the risk of being slightly hyperbolic, the fourth season of The Simpsons is the greatest thing in the history of the universe.

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 26 May 2012

Where it comes from

1. Ancient Greekὑπερβολικός
2. Latinhyperbolic(us)
3. Englishhyperbolic

From Latin hyperbolic(us), from Ancient Greek ὑπερβολικός (huperbolikós). First attested in the 15th century. By surface analysis, hyperbol(e) + -ic.