Word Meanings - HIGH-BLOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inflated, as with conceit.

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• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• CONCEIT
  conception, fr. concipere to conceive: cf. OF. p. p. nom. conciez 1. That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception. In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous. Bacon. A man wise
• INFLATINGLY
  In a manner tending to inflate.
• INFLATIONIST
  One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money.
• CONCEITLESS
  Without wit; stupid. Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thy flattery Shak.
• INFLATABLE
  That may be inflated.
• INFLATUS
  A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.
• CONCEITED
  1. Endowed with fancy or imagination. He was . . . pleasantly conceited, and sharp of wit. Knolles. 2. Entertaining a flattering opinion of one's self; vain. If you think me too conceited Or to passion quickly heated. Swift. Conceited of their
• INFLATION
  1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson. 3. Undue expansion or increase, from
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• SELF-CONCEITED
  Having an overweening opinion of one's own powers, attainments; vain; conceited. -- Self`-con*ceit"ed*ness, n.
• MISCONCEIT
  Misconception.
• PRECONCEIT
  An opinion or notion formed beforehand; a preconception. Hooker.