Overblown definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary OVERBLOWN, pp. Blown by and gone; blown away; driven by; past. And when this cloud of sorrow's overblown. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] 2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses" Merriam Webster's I. adjective Etymology: 3blow Date: ...
... 3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 15th century ...
... 3: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] n 1: the vestments and other insignia ...