Inflated

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inflate \In*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inflated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Inflating}.]
     1. To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand;
        to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the
        lungs.
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              When passion's tumults in the bosom rise,
              Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. --J.
                                                    Scott of
                                                    Amwell.
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     2. Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one
        with pride or vanity.
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              Inflate themselves with some insane delight.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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     3. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to
        inflate the currency.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inflated \In*flat"ed\, a.
     1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a
        balloon inflated with gas.
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     2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an
        inflated style.
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              Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. --Cowper.
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     3. (Bot.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla,
        nectary, or pericarp. --Martyn.
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     4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously or without due cause;
        as, inflated prices; inflated expectations, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  expanded \expanded\ adj.
     increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of
     {contracted}. [Narrower terms: {blown-up, enlarged};
     {dilated}; {distended, swollen}; {inflated}]
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     2. (Printnig) wider than usual for a particular height; -- of
        printers' type. Contrasted with {condensed}.
  
     Syn: extended.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "inflated":
     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