I remember describing something as hyperbolic (meaning ridiculously overstated) to a guy with a degree in some sort of fluid mechanics related thing, and he was

I remember describing something as hyperbolic (meaning ridiculously overstated) to a guy with a degree in some sort of fluid mechanics related thing, and he was like "I'm impressed you know that word, but that's a very specific term that doesn't mean what you think it means...", because it is a term he only knew from work. I had to show him a dictionary to prove that sometimes the same word can have different meanings. I'm sure this is an example of that.