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Overblown

adjective

Puffed up with vanity. Synonyms: grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous. "Overblown oratory" , "A pompous speech" , "Pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"

Past the stage of full bloom.

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"Overblown" Quotes from Famous Books

... behind a little group of fine yellow roses a little overblown, whose leaves would be scattered at the first ...

— The Immortal - Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 • Alphonse Daudet

... took him to be killed with a thunder-stroke. 100 But art thou not drowned, Stephano? I hope, now, thou art not drowned. Is the storm overblown? I hid me under the dead moon-calf's gaberdine for fear of the storm. And art thou living, Stephano? O Stephano, two Neapolitans ...

— The Tempest - The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] • William Shakespeare

... warrant could be served upon him, the old knight, by dint of the most eager entreaties, accompanied with marks of horror and despair, prevailed upon his son to withdraw himself from the kingdom until such time as the storm should be overblown. Had his heart been unengaged, he would have chose to travel, but at this period, when his whole soul was engrossed, and so violently agitated by his passion for Aurelia, nothing but the fear of seeing the old gentleman run distracted would have induced him to desist from ...

— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett

Words linked to "Overblown" : pretentious, mature