Associations to the word «Overblown»
Noun
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Wiktionary
OVERBLOWN, adjective. Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
OVERBLOWN, verb. Past participle of overblow
Dictionary definition
OVERBLOWN, adjective. Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.
OVERBLOWN, adjective. Past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses".
Wise words
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life -
in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us
to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions
all of a color.