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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INFLA'TED, a. In botany, puffed; hollow and distended; as a perianth, corol, nectary, or pericarp.
INFLA'TED, pp. Swelled or distended with air; puffed up.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style" [syn: hyperbolic, inflated]
2: pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution" [syn: high-flown, high-sounding, inflated]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1652 1. elaborated or heightened by artificial or empty means <an inflated style of writing> 2. distended with air or gas 3. expanded to an abnormal or unjustifiable volume or level <inflated prices> 4. being hollow and enlarged or distended

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inflated 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Inflate In*flate", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflated; p. pr. & vb. n. Inflating.] 1. To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand; to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the lungs. When passion's tumults in the bosom rise, Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. --J. Scott of Amwell. 2. Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one with pride or vanity. Inflate themselves with some insane delight. --Tennyson. 3. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to inflate the currency.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

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Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Distended (with air), swollen, bloated, puffed up. 2. Tumid, turgid, bombastic, grandiloquent, altiloquent, magniloquent, stilted, declamatory, rhetorical, sophomorical, high-flown.

Moby Thesaurus

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, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, 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