INFLATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inflated mean? 

• INFLATED (adjective)
  The adjective INFLATED has 2 senses:

1. enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness

2. pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

  Familiarity information: INFLATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFLATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness

Synonyms:

hyperbolic; inflated

Context example:

a hyperbolic style

Similar:

increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pretentious (especially with regard to language or ideals)

Synonyms:

high-flown; high-sounding; inflated

Context example:

a high-sounding dissertation on the means to attain social revolution

Similar:

pretentious (making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

A surgical instrument is introduced into the spine with a balloon that is inflated to expand the bone.

(Kyphoplasty, NCI Thesaurus)

A balloon on the bladder end is inflated (with air or fluid) so that the catheter cannot pull out but is retained in the bladder as an "indwelling" catheter.

(Foley Catheter, NCI Thesaurus)

In emphysema, the alveoli become abnormally inflated, damaging their walls and making it harder to breathe.

(Emphysema, NCI Dictionary)

The leaves of garlic plants are neither inflated like onion leaves nor tubular like those of bunching onions.

(Allium sativum, NCI Thesaurus)

The inflated membrane shot up with frightful velocity into the air.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An increase of the greatest rate of flow that can be achieved during forced expiration beginning with the lungs fully inflated.

(Increased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, NCI Thesaurus)

A decrease of the greatest rate of flow that can be achieved during forced expiration beginning with the lungs fully inflated.

(Decreased Peak Expiratory Flowrate, Food and Drug Administration)

The inside tube, which is an endoscope with a light and lens for viewing, is moved through part of the small intestine, and a balloon at the end of it is inflated to keep the endoscope in place.

(DBE, NCI Dictionary)

She was received by the Allens with all the kindness which her unlooked-for appearance, acting on a steady affection, would naturally call forth; and great was their surprise, and warm their displeasure, on hearing how she had been treated—though Mrs. Morland's account of it was no inflated representation, no studied appeal to their passions.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had Roman features and a double chin, disappearing into a throat like a pillar: these features appeared to me not only inflated and darkened, but even furrowed with pride; and the chin was sustained by the same principle, in a position of almost preternatural erectness.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)