Word Study
overblown (root: overblow)
CIDE DICTIONARY
overblown, a.
- Having been given more publicity than warranted; having had ascribed more importance than was justified; as, an overblown medical discovery. [PJC]
- Bombastic, pretentious, or excessive; as, overblown rhetoric. [PJC]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
overblown, adj.
1 excessively inflated or pretentious.
2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.
1 excessively inflated or pretentious.
2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.
THESAURUS
overblown
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