Something that is overblown makes something seem larger, more important, or more significant than it really is. Warnings of disaster may be overblown The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown. = exaggerated. made to seem greater or more impressive than something really is = exaggerated
puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek