What is the word to describe that something is overly hyped?

What is the word to describe that something is overly-hyped?

I mean something like buzzword or buzzphrase but of course those are not adjectives.


Solution 1:

Well, overhyped would work, but chiefly for something that is actually being (actively) hyped.

Overused or overexposed are good for something that has just been used so much it has lost all of its punch.

Beyond those two, there is cliched.

Solution 2:

At the risk of sounding a bit too obvious, I would be OK with the verb 'overhype', which I think is pretty standard in contemporary English and which Wiktionary, at least, lists as a word. You could therefore describe something as 'overhyped'.

Solution 3:

It sounds like a fad.