overblown

o·ver·blown  (vr-bln)

v.

Past participle of overblow.

adj.

1.

a. Done to excess; overdone: overblown decorations.

b. Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic: overblown oratory.

2. Past the stage of full bloom: overblown roses.

3. Very fat; obese.

4. Having been blown down or over: a pile of overblown saplings.

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overblown [ˌəʊvəˈbləʊn]

adj

1. overdone or excessive

2. bombastic; turgid overblown prose

3. (of flowers, such as the rose) past the stage of full bloom

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	overblown - puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek pompous, grandiloquent, pontifical, portentous pretentious - making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"
	2.	overblown - past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses" mature - having reached full natural growth or development; "a mature cell"

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overblown

adjective

1. excessive, exaggerated, over the top (slang), too much, inflated, extravagant, overdone, disproportionate, undue, fulsome, intemperate, immoderate, O.T.T. (slang) The reporting of the story was fair, though a little overblown.

2. inflated, rhetorical, high-flown, pompous, pretentious, flowery, florid, turgid, bombastic, windy, grandiloquent, high-sounding, fustian, orotund, magniloquent, aureate, euphuistic The book contains a heavy dose of overblown lyrical description.

Translations

overblown [ˌəʊvəˈbləʊn] ADJ

1. [flower] → marchito, pasado

2. [style] → pomposo, pretencioso

overblown [ˌəʊvə^rˈbləʊn] adj (= exaggerated) → exagéré(e)