Overblown (Adjective)
Meaning 1
Past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The once-beautiful bouquet now sat on the table, its overblown flowers wilted and brown.
- The garden was full of overblown peonies, their delicate petals dropping to the ground.
- After a week in the vase, the overblown tulips had lost their vibrant color and begun to droop.
- The park's famous cherry blossoms were already overblown, their delicate pink petals scattered on the ground.
- The overblown daffodils stood tall, their bright yellow trumpets now faded to a dull cream.
Meaning 2
Puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek.
Classification
All adjective clusters.