bloated

adjective

bloat·​ed ˈblō-təd 

: 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

Synonyms

• inflated
• exaggerated

Examples of bloated in a Sentence

I felt bloated from eating too much.

a bloated sense of his own importance

Recent Examples on the Web

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

Word History

First Known Use

1656, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for bloated

• coated
• doted
• floated
• foetid
• gloated
• moated
• noted
• proteid
• quoted
• throated
• voted
• creosoted