overblown
Meaning of overblown
adjective
- made to seem more impressive or important than is the case; exaggerated or pretentious.
his most rhetorically overblown screenplay
- (of a flower) past its prime.
an overblown rose
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Hyphenation of overblown
overblown
- It consists of 1 syllables and 9 chars.
- overblown is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
overblown synonyms
Meaning grandiloquent:
grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous
Meaning write on top of (other writing):
Meaning lacking restraint in spending money or using resources:
Meaning excessively intricate or elaborate:
Meaning impressive and imposing in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so:
Meaning (of speech or writing) full of elaborate or literary words and phrases:
Meaning (of a piece of writing or a work of art) too elaborate or complicated in design or construction:
Meaning too ripe; past its best:
Meaning attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed:
Meaning (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic:
Meaning high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated:
Meaning relating to the art or practice of public speaking:
Meaning using high-flown or bombastic language:
Meaning (of writing, style, or expression) pompous or pretentious:
Meaning (especially of speech, writing, or ideas) pompous or pretentious:
Meaning thick, hard-wearing twilled cloth with a short nap, usually dyed in dark colours:
Meaning made of or having the colour of gold:
Meaning breathe at an abnormally rapid rate, so increasing the rate of loss of carbon dioxide:
overblown antonyms
Meaning easily understood or done; presenting no difficulty:
Meaning not decorated or elaborate; simple or basic in character:
Words that rhyme with overblown
lown, blown, flyblown, handblown, inblown, outblown, reblown, unblown, upblown, windblown, beclown, clown, flown, outflown, overflown, reflown, unflown, allhallown, allhollown
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