In modern English, there are some words which have been back-formed relatively recently

The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary, for example, gives the following definition of the term litotes: “an ironically moderate form of speech, especially the expression of an affirmation through the negation of its opposite, “ not bad ” instead of “ good ”

. Here are some common examples of litotes you may find in everyday conversation: *The novel is not bad.Роман неплохой *You’re not wrong.Вы не ошиблись *I can’t disagree with your logic.Я не могу не согласиться с вашей логикой *My feelings are not unhurt.Мои чувства нетронуты *He is hardly unattractive.Вряд ли он непривлекательный *That lesson is not hard.Этот урок нетруден

Moreover, the term “litotes” is also used as a synonym for “understatement” or “meiosis”, in which the speaker uses a weaker term than (s)he might without violating the truth, and the listener is aware of.

• Moreover, the term “litotes” is also used as a synonym for “understatement” or “meiosis”, in which the speaker uses a weaker term than (s)he might without violating the truth, and the listener is aware of.
• a. The performance is satisfactory “superb”.Исполнение довольно великолепно
• b. He is rather wealthy rich.Он довольно богат

Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare:

Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” by William Shakespeare:

• Let me not to the marriage of true minds
• Admit impediments. Love is not love
• Which alters when it alteration finds,
• Or bends with the remover to remove.
• O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
• That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
• It is the star to every wand’ring bark,
• Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.
• Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
• Within his bending sickle’s compass come;
• Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
• But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
• If this be error and upon me prov’d,
• I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d