About The Word Inflated
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Inflated
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What's The Definition Of Inflated?
[adj] expanded by (or as if by) gas or air; "an inflated balloon"
[adj] enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic style" [adj] increased especially to abnormal levels; "the raised prices frightened away customers"; "inflated wages"; "an inflated economy" [adj] (informal) pretentious; "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-flying dissertation on the means to attain social revolution" Synonyms | Synonyms for Inflated: blown up(p) | blown-up(a) | exaggerated | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | hyperbolic | increased | pretentious | raised(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Inflated: accelerated | aggrandized | amplified | augmented | aureate | ballyhooed | beefed-up | big | bloated | blown up | bombastic | boosted | broadened | cocky | conceited | deepened | diffuse | dilated | disproportionate | distended | dropsical | edematous | egotistic | elevated | enchymatous | enhanced | enlarged | exaggerated | excessive | exorbitant | expanded | extended | extravagant | extreme | fat | flatulent | flowery | formal | fustian | gassy | grandiloquent | grandiose | heightened | highfalutin | highfaluting | high-flown | high-swelling | hiked | hyperbolic | immodest | incrassate | increased | inordinate | intensified | jazzed up | magnified | magniloquent | mouthy | multiplied | orotund | ostentatious | overblown | overdone | overdrawn | overemphasized | overemphatic | overestimated | overgreat | overlarge | overpraised | oversold | overstated | overstressed | overwrought | plethoric | pompous | pontifical | pretentious | prodigal | profuse | proliferated | prolix | puffed | puffed up | puffy | pursy | raised | ranting | reinforced | rhapsodical | rhetorical | self-important | showy | smug | solemn | spread | stiffened | stilted | strengthened | stretched | stuffy | superlative | swelled | swelled-headed | swollen | tall | tightened | touted | tumescent | tumid | turgescent | turgid | vain | ventose | verbose | widened | windy | wordy See Also | Inflated In Webster's Dictionary \In*flat"ed\, a.
1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a
balloon inflated with gas.
2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an
inflated style.
Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. --Cowper.
3. (Bot.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla,
nectary, or pericarp. --Martyn.
4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices,
etc.
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