bloated

[ bloh-tid ]

adjective

1. swollen; puffed up; overlarge.
2. excessively vain; conceited.
3. excessively fat; obese.

bloated

/ ˈbləʊtɪd /

adjective

1. swollen, as with a liquid, air, or wind
2. puffed up, as with conceit

Other Words From

• bloated·ness noun
• un·bloated adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of bloated¹

First recorded in 1655–65; bloat + -ed ²

Example Sentences

The research, published on March 1 in the open-access journal Conservation Letters, found that male researchers in predominantly wealthy countries have a severely bloated footprint in the major ecology journals.

From Popular-Science

A side effect of these kinds of legacy promotional structures is they can lead to bloated organizations.

From Digiday

So, I chose “Dallas,” the iconic nighttime ’80s-era drama about the Ewings, a Texas family bloated with ambition, pride, sexual shenanigans, revenge and money.

From Washington Post

Yet the 21st century’s most ruthlessly efficient retailer has been trying for several years now to gain a bigger foothold in the bloated, borderline nonsensical health system of the world’s richest nation.

From Vox

They’d heard politicians pay lip service to caring for American families and American children while raiding school budgets to pay for bloated favors to lobbyists and campaign contributors.

From Fortune

There were stomachs, taut and flat, but also undulating bellies, soft and bloated from the breakfast buffet.

From The Daily Beast

“It was our own version of what happens when a band becomes over-bloated with its own confidence,” Fogarino, 45, continues.

From The Daily Beast

They were being carried out and the stench of their rotting flesh and bloated guts made it hard to examine them closely.

From The Daily Beast

By the time that you see them, they're bloated into surrealist Arcimboldo paintings, into soft constructions of rotten fruit.

From The Daily Beast

Other, bloated and decomposing corpses are piled on top of them.

From The Daily Beast

The bloated enemy, as regards Scotland, was dead before Dr. Campbell had ever penned a line.

From Project Gutenberg

He has become the demigod of the bloated manufacturing, mining, and landlord interests throughout the country.

From Project Gutenberg

Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were bloated.

From Project Gutenberg

According to degree of exposure, their faces were bloated and black or yellow and shrunken.

From Project Gutenberg

His bloated face betrayed him an inveterate drunkard; his staring little eyes blinked humbly.

From Project Gutenberg