Meaning of OVERBLOWN
Pronunciation: | | `owvur'blown
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- [adj] past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
- [adj] 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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| Synonyms: | | grandiloquent, mature, pompous, pontifical, portentous, pretentious |
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| Related Terms: | | 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, jammed, jam-packed, 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 |
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