Bloated

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Much bigger than desired: a bloated bureaucracy; a bloated budget.
  • adj. Medicine Swollen or distended beyond normal size by fluid or gaseous material.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of bloat.
  • adj. Swollen with fluid or gas.
  • adj. Excessively or extremely large or wealthy.
  • adj. Describing software which is overloaded with features, known as bloatware.
  • adj. Slightly salted and lightly smoked (as in bloated herring).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Swollen; puffed up; inflated; overgrown, so as to be unwieldy, especially from over-indulgence in eating and drinking; pampered: as, “a bloated mass,”
  • Connected with or arising from self-indulgence: as, “bloated slumber,”
  • Inordinately swollen in amount, possessions, self-esteem, etc.; puffed up with pride or wealth: as, a bloated estate; bloated capitalists; a bloated pretender.
  • Word Usage
    "Previous administrations have long been criticized for cutting what they called a "bloated" central office only to add more bureaucracy with higher-paying salaries."
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    turgid    pompous   
    Verb Stem
    bloat   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    boated    coated    demoted    devoted    floated    gloated    misquoted    noted    quoted    throated   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    misshapen    hairy    puffy    ugly    loathsome    sallow    scaly    livid    slimy    gaunt