Litotes

(n.) A diminution or softening of statement for the sake of avoiding censure or increasing the effect by contrast with the moderation shown in the form of expression; as, a citizen of no mean city, that is, of an illustrious city.

Thesaurus Entries

Klangfarbe, abstractionism, achromatism, acrylic painting, acting, affectation, affective meaning, appearance, attitudinizing, bearing, bloom, bluff, bluffing, blush, blushing, cast, cheating, chromatic, chromatism, chromism, chromogen, clang color, coat, coat of paint, coating, cold, color, color balance, color filter, color gelatin, color harmony, color printing, color scheme, colorant, coloration, colorific, coloring, complexion, confabulation, connotation, consequence, cool, crimsoning, dead-color, deception, decorator color, deformation, delusion, denotation, dichromatic, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, distemper, distortion, drier, drift, dye, dyeing, dyestuff, effect, embellishment, emblazonry, encaustic cerography, encaustic painting, equivocation, erubescent, essence, exaggeration, expressionism, extension, exterior paint, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false coloring, false front, false show, false swearing, falsification, falsifying, falsity, feigning, feint, finger painting, flat coat, flat wash, floor enamel, flower painting, flush, flushing, force, four-flushing, fraud, fresco painting, front, garbling, genre painting, gilt, gist, gloss, glow, glowing, gouache, grammatical meaning, grisaille, ground, guise, harmonious, hectic, hectic flush, hue, humbug, humbuggery, hyperbole, idea, illumination, illustration, impact, impasto, implication, import, imposture, inaccuracy, injustice, intension, interior paint, key, lexical meaning, literal meaning, lithography, litotes, mantling, many-colored, masquerade, matching, meaning, medium, medley, meretriciousness, miscoloring, misconstruction, misdrawing, mispainting, misquotation, misreport, misrepresentation, misstatement, misteaching, monochromatic, monochrome, monochromic, motley, mural painting, natural color, nonrealism, oil painting, opaque color, ostentation, outward show, overdrawing, overstatement, overtone, paint, painting, pallor, parti-colored, perjury, pertinence, perversion, picturization, pigment, pigmentary, pigmentation, pith, playacting, point, polychromatic, portraiture, pose, posing, poster painting, posture, practical consequence, pretense, pretension, pretext, prevarication, prime coat, primer, priming, prismatic, pudency, pudicity, purport, put-on, rainbow, range of meaning, real meaning, reddening, reference, referent, relation, relevance, representation, rubefacient, rubescence, rubescent, rubificative, rufescence, scope, seeming, semantic cluster, semantic field, semblance, sense, shade, sham, show, significance, signification, significatum, signifie, simulacrum, simulation, skin color, slanting, span of meaning, speciousness, spectral, spirit, stain, staining, straining, structural meaning, substance, suffusion, sum, sum and substance, symbolic meaning, tempera, tenor, the brush, thinner, timbre, tinct, tinction, tinctorial, tincture, tinge, tingent