overblown
AdjectiveUS[oh-ver-blohn]/ˌoʊvɚˈbloʊn/3 syllables
Open English WordNet
Adjective (2)
- puffed up with vanity“a grandiloquent and boastful manner”“overblown oratory”“a pompous speech”“pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey — Newsweek”Synonyms: grandiloquentpompouspontificalportentousOpposite unpretentiousSimilar pretentious
- past the stage of full bloom“overblown roses”Opposite immatureSimilar mature
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
o′ver·blown′ adjective
1. Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery.
3. Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: GCIDE editors