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overblown

 
Adjective overblown has 2 senses
  1. grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
    Antonym: unpretentious (indirect, via pretentious)
  2. overblown - past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
    Antonym:
    immature (indirect, via mature)
overbear overbearing-definition overbearing overbearingly overbearingness overbid overbite overbites overblown overboad overboard overboarding overboil overbold overbook overbooked overbroading

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