Usually means: Understatement using double negative expression.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word litotes:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. litotes: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. litotes: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. litotes: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. litotes: Collins English Dictionary
  5. litotes: Vocabulary.com
  6. Litotes, litotes: Wordnik
  7. litotes: Wiktionary
  8. litotes: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. litotes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. litotes: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Litotes, litotes: Dictionary.com
  12. Litotes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Litotes: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. litotes: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. litotes: Rhymezone
  16. Litotes: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. litotes: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. litotes: Free Dictionary
  19. litotes: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. litotes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. litotes: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Litotes: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Litotes: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  6. LITOTES: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litotes: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. litotes: A Word A Day
  2. litotes: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. litotes: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (rhetoric) A figure of speech whereby something is stated by denying its opposite, particularly the negation of a negative quality to say something positive.

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