Defenition of the word turgid

• Defenition of the word turgid

  • ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
  • 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"
  • abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
  • ostentatiously lofty in style

Synonyms for the word turgid

• • affected
  • bombastic
  • declamatory
  • dull
  • hard going
  • large
  • orotund
  • pompous
  • ponderous
  • pretentious
  • self-important
  • solemn
  • stilted
  • stuffy
  • tumid

Similar words in the turgid

• • rhetorical
  • turgid
  • turgidity
  • turgidity's
  • turgidly
  • unhealthy

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