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overblown adjective [ əʊvəˈbləʊn ]

• made to seem more impressive or important than is the case; exaggerated or pretentious.
• "his most rhetorically overblown screenplay"
Similar: overwritten, extravagant, florid, grandiose, pompous, over-elaborate, flowery, overwrought, overripe, pretentious, high-flown, turgid, bombastic, oratorical, grandiloquent, magniloquent, orotund, highfalutin, over the top, OTT, euphuistic, fustian, aureate, hyperventilated,
Opposite: simple, plain,
• (of a flower) past its prime.
• "an overblown rose"


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