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overblown¹ Definition

over·blown (ō′vər blōn)

adjective

past the stage of full bloom

overblown² Definition

over·blown (ō′vər blōn)

adjective

  1. stout; obese
    1. overdone; excessive
    2. pompous or bombastic

overblown Synonyms

overblown

modif.

superfluous, excessive, profuse, flowery; see oratorical, verbose.

overblown Usage Examples

Preposition: in

  • way: To check whether your spreadsheet is overblown in this way, press the Ctrl and End keys on the keyboard.

Modifies a noun

  • finale: Even tho there are some dumb moments and an overblown finale, Chan and Wilson's chemistry makes the movie themselves.
  • rhetoric: It was overblown rhetoric, they said: a sad case of a politician drunk on the heady fumes of his own power.
  • claim: I've never made overblown claims about our prospects.
  • hype: The first few races saw the sort of overblown hype we've come to expect from Honda following a highly successful winter of testing.
  • style: The Fulton speech analyzed the post-war international situation in the overblown style which was to win Churchill the Nobel Prize for Literature.
  • battle: So just how much have Planners blown on their grandiose and overblown battle against malaria?

Modifying Another Word

  • slightly: If a claim feels slightly overblown, then tone it down.
  • little: Raoul was too flimsy and foppish until the moment of the sword fight and even then that was a little overblown.
  • ridiculously: Tuition fees, foundation hospitals, faith schools - even the ridiculously overblown debate on fox-hunting - have all provoked a visceral reaction.
  • vastly: Whilst the vastly overblown media hysteria and their ignorance will always alienate football fans, Wales is Wales and that was fantastic.
  • rather: But in the attempts to make the film look as intentionally bad as possible, the film actually turns into a rather overblown cheese-fest.
  • so: In 1977 Atlantic funded the sessions for The Gambler but the results were so overblown that it was not released.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: Bird experts at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology also said the protest seemed overblown.
  • become: With extra money coming in, there could be a danger that the market could become overblown.
  • feel: If a claim feels slightly overblown, then tone it down.
  • sound: It has a catchy chorus, a gorgeous melody and even manages to throw in an orchestral break without sounding overblown.
  • get: But the value of information to democracy tends to get overblown.

Browse dictionary entries near overblown

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