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Word | Overblown |
puffed up with vanity; a grandiloquent and boastful manner; overblown oratory; a pompous speech; pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek / past the stage of full bloom / excessively inflated or pretentious. / past the prime of bloom overblown roses / excessively large in girth : portly / inflated overblown claims overblown rhetoric; also : pretentious, | |
Usage | ⇒ The incident was overblown by the media ⇒ overblown dreams of glory and success |
Synonyms | pompous, grandiloquent, inflated, bombastic, corpulent, gross, pretentious, exaggerated, fat, flatulent, flowery, heavy, rhetorical, turgid, aureate, big, fleshy, magniloquent, oratorical, pontifical, |
Antonyms | unpretentious, immature, artless, ascetic, austere, bald, bare, bleak, chaste, coarse, discreet, dismal, easy, economical, elementary, explicit, frugal, gaunt, half, harsh, |
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