overblown English

Meaning overblown meaning

What does overblown mean?

overblown

— adjective past the stage of full bloom overblown roses

— adjective (= grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical) puffed up with vanity a grandiloquent and boastful manner overblown oratory a pompous speech pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey — Newsweek

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overblown English » English

inflated

grandiose

grandiloquent

exaggerated

portentous

pontifical

pompous

overstated

magniloquent

enlarged

wind-blown

uppity

pretentious

ostentatious

highfaluting

highfalutin

haughty

expansive

distent

bullying

big