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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
accelerated, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, aureate, ballyhooed, beefed-up, big, bloated, blown up, bombastic, boosted, broadened, cocky, conceited, deepened, diffuse, dilated, disproportionate, distended, dropsical, edematous, egotistic, elevated, enchymatous, enhanced, enlarged, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended, extravagant, extreme, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose, heightened, high-flown, high-swelling, highfalutin, highfaluting, hiked, hyperbolic, immodest, incrassate, increased, inordinate, intensified, jazzed up, magnified, magniloquent, mouthy, multiplied, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, plethoric, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, prodigal, profuse, proliferated, prolix, puffed, puffed up, puffy, pursy, raised, ranting, reinforced, rhapsodical, rhetorical, self-important, showy, smug, solemn, spread, stiffened, stilted, strengthened, stretched, stuffy, superlative, swelled, swelled-headed, swollen, tall, tightened, touted, tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, vain, ventose, verbose, widened, windy, wordy
Dictionary Results for inflated:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
inflated
    adj 1: enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness; "a hyperbolic
           style" [syn: hyperbolic, inflated]
    2: 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" [syn: high-flown, high-sounding, inflated]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inflate \In*flate"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inflated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Inflating.]
   1. To swell or distend with air or gas; to dilate; to expand;
      to enlarge; as, to inflate a bladder; to inflate the
      lungs.
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            When passion's tumults in the bosom rise,
            Inflate the features, and enrage the eyes. --J.
                                                  Scott of
                                                  Amwell.
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   2. Fig.: To swell; to puff up; to elate; as, to inflate one
      with pride or vanity.
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            Inflate themselves with some insane delight.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   3. To cause to become unduly expanded or increased; as, to
      inflate the currency.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Inflated \In*flat"ed\, a.
   1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a
      balloon inflated with gas.
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   2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an
      inflated style.
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            Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. --Cowper.
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   3. (Bot.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla,
      nectary, or pericarp. --Martyn.
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   4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously or without due cause;
      as, inflated prices; inflated expectations, etc.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
expanded \expanded\ adj.
   increased in extent or size or bulk or scope. Opposite of
   contracted. [Narrower terms: blown-up, enlarged;
   dilated; distended, swollen; inflated]
   [WordNet 1.5]

   2. (Printnig) wider than usual for a particular height; -- of
      printers' type. Contrasted with condensed.

   Syn: extended.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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