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in·flat·ed

(ĭn-flā′tĭd)

adj.

1. Filled or expanded by or as if by gas or air.

2. Unduly enlarged or aggrandized; swollen: an inflated estimate; an inflated ego.

3. Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic.

4. Raised or expanded to abnormal levels: an inflated economy; inflated wages.

5. Hollow and enlarged: an inflated calyx.

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inflated

(ɪnˈfleɪtɪd)

adj

inflated amounts or prices are higher than they should bemaking something seem better or more important than it really is; exaggeratedfilled with air

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in•flat•ed

(ɪnˈfleɪ tɪd)

adj.

1. distended with air or gas; swollen.

2. puffed up, as with pride.

3. turgid or bombastic: inflated prose.

4. unduly increased in level or amount: inflated costs.

5. Bot. hollow and enlarged or swelled out.

[1645–55]

in•flat′ed•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	inflated - enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic style" hyperbolic increased - made greater in size or amount or degree
	2.	inflated - 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" high-flown, high-sounding colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech 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"

inflated

adjective

1. raised, high, increased, enormous, unfair, excessive, exaggerated, extravagant, unreasonable, sky-high, inordinate, immoderate They had to buy everything at inflated prices at the ranch store.

2. blown-up, pumped-up, filled-up, aerated Ninety per cent of vehicles had wrongly inflated tyres.

3. exaggerated, excessive, swollen, amplified, hyped, exalted, overblown They had an inflated idea of how good they were.

4. elaborate, involved, fancy, detailed, complex, complicated, decorated, extravagant, ornamented, high-flown, ornate, fussy, showy, ostentatious, bombastic, hyperbolic, grandiloquent Some of the most inflated prose is held up for ridicule.

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inflated

adjective

Filled up with or as if with something insubstantial:

flatulent, overblown, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy.

Translations

gonfiato inflazionato montato

inflated

[ɪnˈfleɪtɪd] ADJ

1. [tyre, balloon] → inflado, hinchado (Sp)
inflated with pride (fig) → henchido de orgullo, envanecido

2. (= exaggerated) [price, salary] → inflado; [report] → exagerado; [language] → altisonante, rimbombante
he has an inflated ego → se cree muy importante

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inflated

[ɪnˈfleɪtɪd] adj

[value, prices] → gonflé(e)

[style] → enflé(e)

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inflated

adj

(lit) (with pump) → aufgepumpt; (by mouth) → aufgeblasen

(fig) price, salary → überhöht; pride → übersteigert, übertrieben; ego → übersteigert; style, rhetoric → geschwollen, hochtrabend; to have an inflated opinion of oneself → ein übertriebenes Selbstbewusstsein haben

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inflated

[ɪnˈfleɪtɪd] adj (price, fee) → gonfiato/a; (idea, opinion, value) → esagerato/a, gonfiato/a; (style, language) → ampolloso/a; (tyre) → gonfio/a

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If it is to be done in the way I propose, make your mind easy -- Wragge, inflated by Joyce, is the man to do it.

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Nor have there been wanting learned exegetists who have opined that the whale mentioned in the book of Jonah merely meant a life-preserver --an inflated bag of wind --which the endangered prophet swam to, and so was saved from a watery doom.

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This so inflated them that they did various dodgy things to get staying up still longer, such as demanding bandages; but Wendy, though glorying in having them all home again safe and sound, was scandalised by the lateness of the hour, and cried, "To bed, to bed," in a voice that had to be obeyed.

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For a while it did seem that these people would pass the king before I could get to him; but desperation gives you wings, you know, and I canted my body forward, inflated my breast, and held my breath and flew.

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She was a subscriber for all the "Health" periodicals and phrenological frauds; and the solemn ignorance they were inflated with was breath to her nostrils.

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Instead of this obvious policy, Athens and Sparta, inflated with the victories and the glory they had acquired, became first rivals and then enemies; and did each other infinitely more mischief than they had suffered from Xerxes.

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Suddenly a very little counsel with a terrific bass voice arises, fully inflated, in the back settlements of the fog, and says, "Will your lordship allow me?

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Always foolishly inflated about David, she had been grudging him even to me during these last weeks, and I had forgiven her, putting it down to a mother's love.

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Vasili Andreevich, who was driving, inflated his cheeks, blowing the breath out through his moustache.

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A man with a pervading appearance on him of being inflated like a balloon, and ready to start.

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ISLAMABAD -- Minister for Petroleum Ghulam Sarwar Khan Wednesday reiterated to revise existing gas slabs that caused inflated utility bills to consumers.

Minister reiterates to revise gas slabs' rates

Islamabad -- The Petroleum Division of Energy Ministry is in process of revising existing seven gas slabs to streamline the commodity tariff fixation mechanism, which is considered one of major factors causing inflated utility bills to domestic consumers.