inflated

[ in-fley-tid ]

adjective

1. distended with air or gas; swollen.
2. puffed up, as with pride.
3. turgid or bombastic:

   his inflated prose.

4. unduly increased in level:

   inflated costs.

5. Economics. unduly expanded in amount, value, or size; characterized by inflation.
6. Botany. hollow and enlarged or swelled out:

   inflated perianth.

Other Words From

• in·flated·ly adverb
• in·flated·ness noun
• under·in·flated adjective
• unin·flated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of inflated¹

First recorded in 1645–55; inflate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

You'd think GameStop would have tried to take advantage of this brief market mania, cashing in on its suddenly hot brand by trading inflated stock for real money that could help its struggling brick-and-mortar business.

From Ars Technica

You certainly come across it in the media, where people’s egos can get very inflated.

From Ozy

Vaccine experts say the dispiriting launch reflects more than inflated estimates.

From Washington Post

Pressure checkerIt’s safer to roll on tires that are properly inflated.

From Popular-Science

That inflated score can mean a longer wait for a kidney because eGFR must drop to a certain level before you can start accumulating time on the transplant waitlist.

From ProPublica

Mooney quickly inflated his life raft, sent out an SOS signal and drifted for fourteen days before he was rescued.

From The Daily Beast

He was like an un-tied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released.

From The Daily Beast

Inflated figures lead to ineffective policies and breed panic and over-reach.

From The Daily Beast

Iraqi banks are seconded to commit fraudulent transactions and sell currency at inflated prices.

From The Daily Beast

MacFarlane is actively making money off of his inflated sense of self.

From The Daily Beast

But the sheer quantity of the inflated currency and false money forces prices higher still.

From Project Gutenberg

The finest colored, a pale yellow leaf, brings "inflated" prices, but more often by others than the poor Turk who grows it.

From Project Gutenberg

Lose the power of being tickled by a compliment and inflated by success, and you lose the salt of life.

From Project Gutenberg

In the less inflated parts, the ideas are usually as just, as ingenious and beautiful; for example.

From Project Gutenberg

The critics say that his sublimity of diction is sometimes carried to an extreme, so that his language becomes inflated.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bloated
• magnified
• overblown
• swollen