inflated Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb exaggerate or make bigger
    inflate; blow up; expand; amplify.
    • The charges were inflated
  2. verb fill with gas or air
    inflate; blow up.
    • inflate a balloons
  3. verb cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
    inflate.
    • The war inflated the economy
  4. verb increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
    inflate.
    • inflate the currency
  5. verb become inflated
    balloon; inflate; billow.
    • The sails ballooned
  6. adjective satellite enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness
    hyperbolic.
    • a hyperbolic style
  7. adjective satellite pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)
    high-flown; high-sounding.
    • high-flown talk of preserving the moral tone of the school
    • a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution

WordNet

In*flat"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.
  2. Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style.
    Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.
  3. (Bot.) Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn.
  4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc.

Webster 1913