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bloated - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | bloat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up like a balloon |
| Synonyms: | balloon, belly, bilge, billow, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, inflate, swell, puff up |
| Antonyms: | deflate, shrink, shrivel, tighten |
| Main Entry: | distended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, enlarged, inflated, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid, expanded, puffed out, stretched |
| Main Entry: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
| Synonyms: | aureate, bloated, bombastic, diffuse, distended, enlarged, extended, filled, flatulent, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grown, magniloquent, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, prolix, puffed, ranting, rhetorical, showy, spread, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, windy, wordy, aggrandized, amplified, augmented, dilated, dropsical, euphuistic, magnified, overestimated, pumped up, rhapsodical, stretched, surcharged |
| Antonyms: | deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty*, high-flown*, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffy*, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up*, supercilious, turgid, uppity*, vain, vainglorious, windy*, highfaluting*, puffed up |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | puffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | billowy, bloated, blown, distended, enlarged, full, increased, inflamed, inflated, bulgy, distent, expanded, puffed up |
| Antonyms: | flat, tight, unswollen |
| Main Entry: | swollen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enlarged |
| Synonyms: | bloated, distended, inflamed, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumescent, tumid, bulgy, distent |
| Antonyms: | shrunken, compressed, contracted |
| Main Entry: | tumescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, bursting, distended, enlarged, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumid, bulgy, distent, expanding |
| Main Entry: | puffed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expanded |
| Synonyms: | bloated, distended, enlarged, inflated, swollen |
| Main Entry: | rich |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a lot of money |
| Synonyms: | affluent, bloated, comfortable, easy, fat, flush, gilded, independent, loaded, moneyed, opulent, plush, prosperous, swimming, wealthy, well-heeled*, well-off*, well-to-do*, filthy rich, in clover, in the money, made of money, propertied, rolling in it, upscale, uptown, well provided for, worth a million |
| Antonyms: | poor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective1 |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, distended, inflated, puffy, tumescent, tumid |
| Notes: | turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical bodies |
| Main Entry: | proud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, self-important |
| Synonyms: | bloated, boastful, cavalier, cocky*, conceited, contemptuous, cool*, disdainful, domineering, egotistic, haughty, high-handed*, huffy*, imperious, insolent, lofty, narcissistic, ostentatious, overbearing, pompous, presumptuous, pretentious, scornful, self-satisfied, snobbish, snooty*, stuck-up*, supercilious, superior, vain, vainglorious, dismissive, egotistical, high-and-mighty*, puffed up, sniffy |
| Antonyms: | humble, meek, modest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, prim |
| Synonyms: | Victorian*, arrogant, bloated, conventional, dreary, dull, genteel, important, magisterial, musty, narrow-minded, pompous, priggish, prissy, prudish, puffy, puritanical, self-important, staid, stilted, stodgy, straitlaced*, uninteresting, fusty, humorless, prim and proper |
| Antonyms: | current, informal, modern, new |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | billow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | surge |
| Synonyms: | balloon, belly, bloat, bounce, bulge, heave, pitch, ripple, rock, roll, swell, toss, undulate, wave, ebb and flow, puff up, rise and fall, rise up |
| Main Entry: | blow up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inflate |
| Synonyms: | billow, bloat, distend, enlarge, expand, fill, inflate, swell, puff up, pump up |
| Antonyms: | deflate, shrink, shrivel, let out |
| Main Entry: | bulge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | project outward |
| Synonyms: | bag, balloon, belly, bilge, billow, bloat, blob, dilate, distend, enlarge, expand, extrude, jut, overhang, poke, pouch, protrude, sag, stand out, stick out, swell, beetle, bug out, pop out, protuberate, puff out |
| Antonyms: | depress, cave in |
| Main Entry: | distend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bulge, swell |
| Synonyms: | amplify, augment, balloon, bloat, dilate, distort, enlarge, expand, increase, inflate, lengthen, puff, stretch, widen |
| Antonyms: | contract, deflate, fall, shrink, cave in |
| Main Entry: | expand |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend, augment |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, beef up*, bloat, blow up*, bolster, broaden, burgeon, detail, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, embellish, enlarge, explicate, fatten, fill out, grow, heighten, hike, increase, inflate, lengthen, magnify, mount, multiply, mushroom, open, pad, prolong, protract, pyramid*, spread, stretch, swell, thicken, unfold, unfurl, unravel, unroll, upsurge, wax*, widen, bulk up, fan out*, open out, outspread, piggyback, puff up, slap on, soup up, spread out, stretch out, tack on |
| Antonyms: | abbreviate, contract, lessen, lower, shorten, shrink |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fatten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow or make bigger; nourish |
| Synonyms: | augment, bloat, broaden, build up, cram, distend, expand, feed, fill, increase, plump, spread, stuff, swell, thicken, thrive, wax, coarsen, gain weight, overfeed, put flesh on, put on weight, round out |
| Antonyms: | thin, undernourish |
| Main Entry: | inflate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up, increase |
| Synonyms: | aerate, aggrandize, amplify, augment, balloon*, beef up*, bloat, boost, build up, cram*, dilate, distend, enlarge, escalate, exaggerate, exalt, expand, magnify, pad*, pyramid, raise, spread, stretch, surcharge, widen, flesh out, maximize, overestimate, puff up, pump up, swell up |
| Antonyms: | compress, contract, deflate, shrink, let air out |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open or fan out |
| Synonyms: | arrange, array, bloat, branch off, broaden, cast, circulate, coat, cover, daub, develop, diffuse, dilate, disperse, diverge, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, flatten, flow, gloss, increase, lay, lengthen, level, lie, multiply, mushroom, open, overlay, paint, pervade, prepare, proliferate, radiate, reach, set, settle, smear, sprawl, spray, stretch, strew, suffuse, swell, unfold, unfurl, unroll, unwind, widen, be displayed, be distributed, even out, outstretch, roll out, uncoil, untwist |
| Antonyms: | close, collect, compress, gather |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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