Found 2 items, similar to turgid.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: turgid
turgid
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style;
“a man given to large talk”;
“tumid political prose” [syn:
bombastic,
declamatory,
large,
orotund,
tumid]
2: abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas;
“hungry
children with bloated stomachs”;
“he had a grossly
distended stomach”;
“eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids”;
“swollen hands”;
“tumescent tissue”;
“puffy tumid flesh”
[syn:
bloated,
distended,
puffed,
puffy,
swollen,
tumescent,
tumid]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Turgid
Turgid
\Tur"gid\, a. [L. turgidus, from turgere to swell.]
1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent
or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated;
tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the
body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
[1913 Webster]
A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
[1913 Webster]
2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
[1913 Webster] --
Tur"gid*ly, adv. --
Tur"gid*ness, n.
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