What is the meaning of overblown?

adjective

  • Puffed up with vanity."a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey- Newsweek
  • Past the stage of full bloom.
    • usage: "overblown roses"
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