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What (who) is overinflated - definition


overinflated      
¦ adjective
1. (of a price or value) excessive.
exaggerated.
2. filled with too much air.
inflated      
adjective exaggerate.
Inflated      
·Impf & ·p.p. of Inflate.
II. Inflated ·adj Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, ·etc.
III. Inflated ·adj Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp.
IV. Inflated ·adj Turgid; swelling; puffed up; bombastic; pompous; as, an inflated style.
V. Inflated ·adj Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.
Examples of use of overinflated
1. The price is paid for the overinflated image of the district.
2. Those indexes were inflated – overinflated in the case of the Nasdaq – by the dot–com bubble.
3. The main reason, however, is that Israel‘s business tycoons are not so big and strong anymore, but are rather overinflated.
4. Three key executives, one of whom has since died, feathered their nests by 80m by selling their shares at the top of the market in an overinflated company whose stockmarket value slumped from 1bn at its peak to barely 100m earlier this week.
5. I was assured that such honours had not been conferred on anyone for 50 years." Article continues With many artists, such words might betoken nothing more than the posturing delusions of an overinflated ego, but luckily for us, while in England, Haydn was in the habit of recording observations in a series of notebooks.