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Synonyms for overblown
ˈoʊ vərˈbloʊnoverblown
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grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentousadjective
puffed up with vanity
"a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek
Synonyms:
prodigious, papal, foreboding(a), tall, episcopal, portentous, grandiloquent, apostolic, pontifical, fateful, pompous, ceremonious, magniloquent, apostolicalAntonyms:
unpretentious, immatureoverblownadjective
past the stage of full bloom
"overblown roses"
Synonyms:
portentous, grandiloquent, pompous, pontificalAntonyms:
immature, unpretentious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "overblown":
high-flown, exaggerated, grandiloquent, high-sounding, inflated, excessive
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#4724 | tall | |
#8094 | excessive | |
#15978 | episcopal | |
#23758 | exaggerated | |
#25118 | inflated | |
#25844 | apostolic | |
#30997 | papal | |
#42259 | fateful | |
#51574 | pompous | |
#51999 | prodigious | |
#65304 | overblown | |
#67323 | pontifical | |
#129078 | portentous | |
#231105 | ceremonious | |
#276754 | grandiloquent |
How to use overblown in a sentence?
This is overblown sensational tabloid fodder -- nothing more than a fabricated' he said she said' regarding a cell phone, with no striking and obviously no injury whatsoever, anyone can make an accusation, but this should have been closed immediately.
There’s a lot of fear right now. It’s a sell-first-and-ask-questions-later approach, end of era for China tech? I think that’s overblown. Sentiments come and go. We probably need a couple of good earnings seasons ... to show the impact, if any, on earnings.
On the one hand it creates increased anxiety among those who doubt the truth is being told, and on the other it increases the number of people who think the whole thing is overblown.
The whole brouhaha here is overblown to the point where there are cynical suggestions offered for the plain and simple truth that the chamber wanted only to release accurate information that they believed was totally unassailable, the chamber was never satisfied that the numbers that they were getting from D.O.H. were accurate. The chamber responded to the D.O.J. request with what they deemed to be totally accurate numbers. They didn’t want to have a public debate about other numbers at the same time.
The liquidity in the local markets has improved, not decreased, so this fear over liquidity in many cases is a little overblown and not consistent with the empirical evidence we've seen.
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