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English

Adjective

Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
:They went all that way just to be in some overblown conference?

Synonyms

inflated

Translations

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Verb

overblown

zh:overblown

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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 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, pompous, pontifical,
portentous]
2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"

WordNet overblown
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Moby Dictionary
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