inflated

Definitions

Distended, swollen, or filled with air or gas.

Exaggerated or increased beyond reasonable or normal limits.

Increased in price or monetary value, often to an excessive degree.

Examples

The company's inflated sense of self-importance led to a series of poor business decisions.

He realized that the price of the vintage car had been artificially inflated by the seller.

Synonyms

exaggerated swollen bloated distended overstated puffed enlarged

Antonyms

deflated shrunken contracted understated modest realistic diminished