1
: excessively large in girth : portly
2
: inflated
overblown claims
overblown rhetoric
also
: pretentious
Examples of overblown in a Sentence
Adjective (2)
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
But new research reevaluating one of the only rigorous studies testing that hypothesis suggests those conclusions were probably overblown.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
If Snow White arrives accompanied by an echo chamber of overblown online controversies, that has zero bearing on the pleasures of this 21st century update.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Claims to the contrary are likely overblown.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Beijing has said those concerns are overblown and that the rise of its high-tech industries is due to its comparative advantages and benefits the world.
—Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
But new research reevaluating one of the only rigorous studies testing that hypothesis suggests those conclusions were probably overblown.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
If Snow White arrives accompanied by an echo chamber of overblown online controversies, that has zero bearing on the pleasures of this 21st century update.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
Claims to the contrary are likely overblown.
—Emily Peck, Axios, 13 Mar. 2025
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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