| 单词 | overblown |
| 释义 | overblown (once / 12312 pages) 1adj 2adj Overblown describes fears or concerns that are excessive, such as a overblown worry that people will notice a spot of dirt on your shoe and decide not to be your friend anymore. Overblown is a word gardeners use to describe their flowers that, having bloomed, now hang heavy on their stems. You can use it to describe other things that are past their prime like an overblown fashion trend everyone is tired of. Another meaning is an extreme display of vanity, like the overblown decorating style of a famous actor's home — complete with photos, memorabilia from past films, and award trophies everywhere you look. WORD FAMILYblow: blew, blowed, blower, blowing, blows, blowy, counterblow, overblown+/blower: blowers/blowing: blowings/blowy: blowiest/counterblow: counterblows USAGE EXAMPLESBut his team has argued that fears of a destructive trade war are overblown. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) He knows America well and has no illusions about the “special relationship,” which he believes was invented by Churchill and was always much overblown. New York Times(Nov 29, 2016) Subtract the personality and essential decency of Moore’s work, though, and the results are hectoring and overblown as well as factually challenged. The Guardian(Nov 29, 2016) 1 adj puffed up with vanity 2overblown oratory Syn grandiloquent, pompous, pontifical, portentous pretentious making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction adj past the stage of full bloom overblown roses Syn mature having reached full natural growth or development |
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