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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. puffed up with vanity;
- Example: "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"
- Example: "overblown oratory"
- Example: "a pompous speech"
- Example: "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
[syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous]

2. past the stage of full bloom;
- Example: "overblown roses"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

overblown \o`ver*blown"\, a.
   1. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having
      had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an
      overblown medical discovery.
      [PJC]

   3. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown
      rhetoric.
      [PJC]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

overblown
    adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful
           manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech";
           "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"-
           Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous,
           pontifical, portentous]
    2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"