1
: excessively large in girth : portly
2
: inflated
overblown claims
overblown rhetoric
also
: pretentious
Examples of overblown in a Sentence
Adjective (2)
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
On Monday, the Club bought more Palo Alto Networks shares on the cybersecurity company’s overblown post-earnings decline.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
Meier stressed such fears were overblown.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
Compared with certified batteries, whose public safety risks may be overblown, the dangers of counterfeit batteries may be underrated.
—Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Nov. 2025
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Adjective
That’s also why there’s something especially disheartening about mediocrity on a grand scale, as with the glut of overproduced, overblown franchise films, which lack both personalized imagination and the more modest virtue of clear observation.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
On Monday, the Club bought more Palo Alto Networks shares on the cybersecurity company’s overblown post-earnings decline.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 28 Nov. 2025
Meier stressed such fears were overblown.
—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 27 Nov. 2025
Compared with certified batteries, whose public safety risks may be overblown, the dangers of counterfeit batteries may be underrated.
—Andrew Moseman, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Nov. 2025
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 8 Dec. 2025.
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