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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

... torture-proof, and on the crust Of one kind word, though as a pittance thrown, I'd live for weeks! My tears I would disown And pray, contented with my discontent, As hermits pray when storms are overblown. ...

— A Lover's Litanies • Eric Mackay

... come. No sound was to be heard; but he knew that all around him life was about to awaken in common noises, hoarse voices, sleepy prayers. Shrinking from that life he turned towards the wall, making a cowl of the blanket and staring at the great overblown scarlet flowers of the tattered wallpaper. He tried to warm his perishing joy in their scarlet glow, imagining a roseway from where he lay upwards to heaven all strewn with scarlet flowers. Weary! Weary! He too was ...

— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... which he had always an eye on. He knew there was that in it which no scientific apparatus that could be put in operation then, on so short a notice, and when science was so feebly aided, would be able to divert or conduct entirely. He knew that so fearful a war-cloud would have to burst, and get overblown, before any chance for those peace operations, those operations of a solid and lasting peace, which he was bent on, could be had—before any space on the earth could be found broad enough for his Novum Organum to get to work on, before ...

— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon

Words linked to "Overblown" : pompous, pretentious, pontifical, mature, portentous