inflated
inflated
Definition
inĀ·flated (-id)
adjective
- puffed out; swollen
- pompous; bombastic; high-flown
- increased or raised beyond what is normal or valid
- characterized or caused by inflation
inflated
Synonyms
inflated
modif.
Antonyms
inflated
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- ego: They had an inflated ego, they had a greater sense of their own importance than they should have had.
- tire: Two flats, probably due to under inflated tire allowing inner tube to get nipped.
- balloon: The gas inside an inflated balloon exerts a greater pressure outward than the inward pressure of the atmosphere.
- bladder: Shortly after this picture was taken, I was hit over the head with an inflated bladder on a stick.
- price: Farmers have sold these houses for inflated prices to the middle classes who have moved into the rural areas.
- expectation: But from where did they download their inflated expectations?
Modifying Another Word
- grossly: Many firms used grossly inflated forecasts to sell their policies.
- vastly: There is no way he can possibly justify such a vastly inflated fee.
- artificially: Hence many tricks are used to cheat them and achieve artificially inflated rankings.
- falsely: A company is being run for a fraudulent purpose e.g. regularly submitting falsely inflated bills to customers for car repairs.
- hugely: Even at the hugely inflated fee Rooney is an outstanding signing for the club.
- correctly: They are so quick and easy to use, simply screw onto a correctly inflated tire in place of the dust caps.
Used with adjective complement
- become: This is similar to a tire getting increasingly difficult to pump air into as it becomes fully inflated.
- stay: Remember to pull the seal up higher and add another lump of lead so the suit stays more inflated.
- keep: The balloons had to be kept fully inflated - hence the enormous size of the hanger.
Browse dictionary entries near inflated
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