单词 | inflated |
释义 | inflatedadj. 1. Puffed out or swollen by air or gas; in quot. 1700, ‘filled with wind’. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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