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adjective bloat·ed \ ˈblō-təd \

Definition of bloated

: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

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I felt bloated from eating too much.
a bloated sense of his own importance

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Ever see those political cartoons from the 19th century of bloated lawmakers gorged on the monopoly money during the era when John D. Rockefeller’s oil men were pillaging the land in upstate Pennsylvania?

— will bunch, Philly.com, "Why Pa.'s fracked-up spending deal is an environmental nightmare," 8 Aug. 2017
But presumably the former chief executive of Exxon Mobil would at least be able to use his management skills to make the State Department – which is known to have a bloated bureaucracy – run more smoothly.

— margaret hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, "Tillerson Denies He Wants to Quit, But Doesn’t Appear to Be Doing Much Leading," 7 Aug. 2017
The Tigers’ ace is supposedly available if a team is willing to pick up his bloated contract.

— ryan divish, The Seattle Times, "August trades? Those are in Jerry Dipoto’s playbook, too. Here’s how they work," 5 Aug. 2017
In 2010, Raúl Castro once again embraced cuentapropismo as a way to move hundreds of thousands of people off bloated state payrolls and deliver a greater variety of goods and services to Cuban consumers.

— mimi whitefield, miamiherald, "Cuba reins in entrepreneurs who take free enterprise too far," 31 July 2017
Neither device supports apps, which have become a cornerstone of Apple's music business now that Apple Music has all but replace the aging, bloated disaster that is iTunes.

— eric limer, Popular Mechanics, "The iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano Are Dead," 27 July 2017
Mr Putin is unlikely to lose sleep over his stadiums’ bloated budgets.

— The Economist, "Extra time and punishmentThe cost overruns on Russia’s World Cup stadiums are staggering," 20 July 2017
In a viciously competitive, financially bloated NFL, a team needs both kinds of personalities to thrive.

— jourdan rodrigue, charlotteobserver, "Was Jerry Richardson wrong? Or was fired Panthers GM Dave Gettleman? Really, both.," 18 July 2017
The U.S. and many other major economies remain stuck in sluggish growth, despite bloated central-bank balance sheets and enormous debts accumulated by national governments.

— sean rushton, National Review, "The Overvalued Dollar and the World Deflationary Malaise," 13 July 2017

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bloated Synonyms

Synonyms

exaggerated, hyperbolized, inflated, outsize (also outsized), overblown, overdrawn, overweening

Related Words

elaborated, embellished, embroidered, enlarged, hyped-up, magnified, overdone, overemphasized, overplayed, overstated, padded, stretched; grandiose, preposterous, unreal, unrealistic, unreasonable

Near Antonyms

realistic, reasonable

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