Dictionary Definition
inflated adj
1 enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "had
an exaggerated (or inflated) opinion of himself"; "a hyperbolic
style" [syn: exaggerated, hyperbolic]
2 expanded by (or as if by) gas or air; "an
inflated balloon" [ant: deflated]
3 pretentious (especially with regard to language
or ideals); "high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the
school"; "a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain
social revolution" [syn: high-flown,
high-sounding]
4 increased especially to abnormal levels; "the
raised prices frightened away customers"; "inflated wages"; "an
inflated economy" [syn: raised(a)]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
inflated- Filled with air or fluid
- The inflated balloons danced in the breeze.
- Expanded; in a
state of inflation, of
increased size
- His inflated belly looked uncomfortable.
- : In a state of higher cost.
- His inflated prices made the vendor unpopular.
- (fig.): Pompous; arrogant (of a person or ego)
- (fig.): Containing excessive, meaningless words,
particularly for show
- The inflated speech did not impress the audience.
Synonyms
filled with air or expandedAntonyms
Derived terms
Translations
expanded
at higher cost
containing excessive words
Verb
inflated- past of inflate
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accelerated, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, aureate, ballyhooed, beefed-up,
big, bloated, blown up, bombastic, boosted, broadened, cocky, conceited, deepened, diffuse, dilated, disproportionate,
distended, dropsical, edematous, egotistic, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended, extravagant, extreme, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose, heightened, high-flown,
high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, hyperbolic, immodest, incrassate, increased, inordinate, intensified, jazzed up,
magnified, magniloquent, mouthy, multiplied, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, plethoric, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, proliferated, prolix, puffed, puffed up, puffy, pursy, raised, ranting, reinforced, rhapsodical, rhetorical, self-important,
showy, smug, solemn, spread, stiffened, stilted, strengthened, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swelled, swelled-headed,
swollen, tall, tightened, touted, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, vain, ventose, verbose, widened, windy, wordy