inflatedadj.
/ɪnˈfleɪtɪd/ 1. Puffed out or swollen by air or gas; in quot. 1700, ‘filled with wind’.
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the world > matter > gas > air > [adjective] > under pressure > inflated or filled with compressed air
blownc1425
puffed1536
upblown1590
wind-blown1593
huff-pufft1608
flatuous1658
inflated1681
pneumatic1862
out-blowed-
the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > inflating > inflated
inflate?1504
puffed1536
full-blown1576
upblown1590
wind-blown1593
huff-pufft1608
bladdered1633
flatuous1658
inflated1681
out-blowed-
1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Inflated, blown or puffed up as a bladder with wind.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Fables 251 They chas'd the murd'rous Fox, With brazen Trumpets, and inflated Box.
1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges 125 Bridges on..air-tight cases, and inflated skins.
1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xiii. 137 Up rose with inflated majesty the gaseous globe.
2. Of language: Full of empty rhetoric; turgid, bombastic.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic
fleshyc1369
windya1382
unmeasureda1425
puffing1566
embossed1578
puffed1587
bombasted1589
fustian1592
puffya1594
full-mouthed1594
orificial1594
gouty1595
swelling1597
mouth-filling1598
taffeta1598
bombast1601
tiptoe-strouting1602
turgidous1602
swollen1605
dropsieda1616
exsufflicatea1616
turgent1621
ampullous1622
tympanous1625
high-flown1632
tumorousa1637
blustered1638
tumid1648
bombastical1649
ranting1650
inflated1652
tuftaffetya1658
pompiona1670
bombastic1704
dropsical1721
thundering1725
turgid1725
exsuffolate1744
Lexiphanic1767
hi cockalorum1783
Ossianic1788
mouthing1814
mouthy1827
sophomoric1837
highfalutin1839
sophomorical1847
spread eagle1853
tumescent1882
Herodian1886
Ossianesque1889
Barnumesque1890
1652 H. Cogan tr. M. de Scudery Ibrahim Pref. sig. A5v A narrative stile ought not to be too much inflated, no more than that of ordinary conversations.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 67 The account he gives of it is long and inflated.
1788 F. Burney Diary 1 Aug. (1842) IV. 219 I did not in general like Akenside's odes..I thought they were too inflated.
1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 145 Are these titles..mere pieces of inflated rhetoric?
3. Swollen, expanded, or dilated with hollow interior, as if by inflation.
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the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > swelling > swollen
bollen?c1225
bolghena1250
swollenc1325
rank?a1400
forbolned1413
puff1472
voustyc1480
knule?a1513
puffed1536
boldenc1540
tumorous1547
bladder-like1549
hoven1558
forswollen1565
uppuffed1573
bolled1578
engrossed1578
heaved1578
puffy1598
swelleda1616
bloughty1620
inflate1620
tympanous1625
tumid1626
tumoured1635
tumefied1651
bloated1664
pluff1673
inflated1744
balloon-like?1784
bladdery1785
ballooned1820
bepuffeda1849
utriculate1860
pobby1888
1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 199 Now th' inflated Wave Straining they scale.
1776–96 W. Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 134 Calyx egg-shaped, inflated.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 384 Abdomen inflated and vesicular.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. 416/2 Inflated, bladdery.
4. Puffed up or elated with vanity, or false notions.
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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [adjective]
to-bollenc1175
bolledc1375
bolnedc1380
swollenc1386
blown1483
puffed?a1500
inflate?1504
bellieda1533
bladder-puffed1549
uppuffed1573
huffling1582
swellinga1586
upblown1590
tumorous1603
windy1603
windy-headed1603
huffed1605
flown1606
huff-pufft1608
puff-pasted1610
turgid1620
turgent1621
high-blown1623
tympanous1625
bladdered1633
tympaneda1634
tumoured1635
tympanied1637
enormous1641
over-leaven1648
flatulent1658
tympany-like1658
huffy1677
tumefied1677
blubbered1699
full-blown1699
bloated1731
tympanitical1772
inflated1785
pompholygous1855
overblown1864
forblown-
1785 W. Cowper Task v. 268 Inflated and astrut with self-conceit, He gulps the windy diet.
1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 69 Knight errantry was the effect of an inflated imagination.
1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. vi. 228 The inflated conceptions diffused among their countrymen of the riches of India.
1869 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi ii. 63 In his [Thersites'] short speech, of which an inflated presumption is the principal mark.
5. Raised or enhanced in price by speculation or other artificial and temporary causes.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > high price or rate > [adjective] > increased
enhanced1796
over-inflated1879
inflated1881
inflationary1920
1881 W. E. Gladstone Speech at Leeds 7 Oct. Exported at an inflated state of prices that could not possibly be maintained.
1899 Morning Herald 28 June 4/3 There was an unnatural and an unhealthy inflated value put upon land.
Derivatives
inˈflatedness n. the quality of being inflated.
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the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > [noun]
bolninga1340
swellingc1386
inflation1526
tympany1581
tumour1599
typhus1643
puffiness1668
inflatedness1867
bloatednessc1875
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > inflated or bombastic style
inflation1603
windinessa1613
ranting1633
tumoura1639
turgency1654
tympany1680
swell1744
turgidity1756
turgidness1757
tumidity1791
ráiméis1828
mouthiness1830
spread-eagleism1858
inflatedness1867
ampullosity1869
telegraphese1870
mouthing1876
Barnumese1889
intumescence1893
1867 C. J. Smith Syn. & Antonyms at Altiloquence Turgidity, Inflatedness.
1890 Spectator 29 Mar. Illimitable obtuseness to the bathos of moral and intellectual inflatedness.
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