meiosis

meiosis is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 3 senses

Definitions

1. noun. Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
2. noun. understatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)

   "saying `I was not a little upset' when you mean `I was very upset' is an example of litotes"

   Synonyms: litotes

3. noun. (genetics) cell division that produces reproductive cells in sexually reproducing organisms; the nucleus divides into four nuclei each containing half the chromosome number (leading to gametes in animals and spores in plants)

   Synonyms: miosis

Synonyms

litotes, miosis

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