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inflated
[ in-fley-tid ]
adjective
- distended with air or gas; swollen.
- puffed up, as with pride.
- turgid or bombastic:
his inflated prose.
- unduly increased in level:
inflated costs.
- Economics. unduly expanded in amount, value, or size; characterized by inflation.
- Botany. hollow and enlarged or swelled out:
inflated perianth.
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Other Words From
- in·flated·ly adverb
- in·flated·ness noun
- under·in·flated adjective
- unin·flated adjective
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Example Sentences
Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.
He was like an un-tied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released.
Inflated figures lead to ineffective policies and breed panic and over-reach.
Iraqi banks are seconded to commit fraudulent transactions and sell currency at inflated prices.
MacFarlane is actively making money off of his inflated sense of self.
But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.
The finest colored, a pale yellow leaf, brings "inflated" prices, but more often by others than the poor Turk who grows it.
Lose the power of being tickled by a compliment and inflated by success, and you lose the salt of life.
In the less inflated parts, the ideas are usually as just, as ingenious and beautiful; for example.
The critics say that his sublimity of diction is sometimes carried to an extreme, so that his language becomes inflated.
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