turgid

3 definitions found

turgid - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), 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.
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              A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
                                                    --Boyle.
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     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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turgid - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  turgid
      adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
             talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
             declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
      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:
         puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]

turgid - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "turgid":
     Latinate, aureate, awkward, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic,
     bug-eyed, bulged, cramped, cumbrous, dilated, distended, dropsical,
     edematous, elephantine, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, fat,
     flatulent, flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, goggle,
     goggled, grandiloquent, guinde, halting, heavy, incrassate,
     inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering, magniloquent,
     mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
     popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important,
     sesquipedalian, solemn, stiff, stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling,
     swollen, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, unwieldy, ventose,
     ventricose, windy