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overblown (root: overblow)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective overblown has 2 senses
- overblown(s = adj.all) grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"
- overblown(s = adj.all) Array - past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
CIDE DICTIONARY
overblown, a.
- Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery. [PJC]
- Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overblown, adj.
1 excessively inflated or pretentious.
2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.
1 excessively inflated or pretentious.
2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.
THESAURUS
overblown
arty, aureate, big, bloated, bombastic, bursting, choked, congested, corpulent, crammed, crowded, declamatory, distended, drenched, dropsical, euphuistic, fat, filled to overflowing, flatulent, fleshy, flowery, glutted, gorged, grandiloquent, gross, heavy, hyperemic, imposing, in spate, jam-packed, jammed, magniloquent, obese, oratorical, over the hill, overburdened, overcharged, overfed, overflowing, overfraught, overfreighted, overfull, overladen, overloaded, overripe, overstocked, overstuffed, oversupplied, overweight, overweighted, packed, plethoric, portly, ready to burst, running over, satiated, saturated, soaked, sonorous, stout, stuffed, stuffed up, supercharged, supersaturated, surcharged, surfeited, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy
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