bloated

adjective

bloat·​ed ˈblō-təd How to pronounce bloated (audio)
: overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc.
felt bloated from eating too much
a bloated body
often used figuratively to describe something as having grown excessively large
a bloated budget
a bloated bureaucracy

Examples of bloated in a Sentence

I felt bloated from eating too much. a bloated sense of his own importance
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Ronald Martinez/Getty Images Buehler's ERA now stands at a bloated 6.45. Jon Vankin, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025 SMBs need focused, outsourced, and staged solutions, not bloated enterprise packages. Carrie Rubinstein, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025 With increasingly bloated inventories and sagging sales, ground-breaking on single-family homes last month remained sluggish, according to figures out last week. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 26 June 2025 Cutting back on generous, bloated social services, reducing some 400 federal agencies, etc., will be unpopular and politically hazardous. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for bloated

Word History

First Known Use

1656, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bloated was in 1656

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“Bloated.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bloated. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.

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