Inflated

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Filled or expanded by or as if by gas or air.
  • adj. Unduly enlarged or aggrandized; swollen: an inflated estimate; an inflated ego.
  • adj. Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic.
  • adj. Raised or expanded to abnormal levels: an inflated economy; inflated wages.
  • adj. Hollow and enlarged: an inflated calyx.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Filled with air or fluid
  • adj. Expanded; in a state of inflation, of abnormally increased size, amount, etc.
  • adj. : In a state of higher cost.
  • adj. Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)
  • adj. Containing excessive, meaningless words, particularly for show
  • adj. Higher that the true figure
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of inflate.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended.
  • adj. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous.
  • adj. Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp.
  • adj. Distended or enlarged fictitiously or without due cause
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
  • adj. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
  • Equivalent
    Antonym
    deflated   
    Cross Reference
    bombastic    conceited    elated    inflated joint    pedipalp   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    distended    turgid    swelling    bombastic    pompous    bloated    swelled    expanded    swollen    bulging   
    Verb Stem
    inflate   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    abated    annotated    awaited    baited    bated    belated    berated    conjugated    created    dated