7 definitions found for overblown

Overblown OVERBLOWN, pp. Blown by and gone; blown away; driven by; past.
And when this cloud of sorrow's 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, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] 2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"

overblown I. adjective Etymology: ³blow Date: 1616 past the prime of bloom <overblown roses> II. adjective Etymology: ¹blow Date: 1864 1. excessively large in girth ; portly 2. inflated <overblown claims> <overblown rhetoric>; also pretentious

overblown
adj.
1 excessively inflated or pretentious.
2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.

overblown Something that is overblown makes something seem larger, more important, or more significant than it really is. Warnings of disaster may be overblown... The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown. = exaggerated ADJ

overblown ˈəuvəˈbləun adj. 1 excessively inflated or pretentious. 2 (of a flower or a woman's beauty etc.) past its prime.

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