Swollen or puffed out by air or gas; hence, in zoology and botany, distended or dilated in every direction, and hollowed out, as if by inflation: as, inflated petioles; inflated bladderwort: applied in conchology to rotund shells of light, thin texture, in contradistinction from ventricose.Turgid; bombastic; pompous: as, inflated oratory.