Found 2 items, similar to overblown.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: overblown
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”
overblown
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overblow
English → English (gcide)
Definition: overblown
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]