turgid
Adjective
Mar 21, 2024
- ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”
- Synonyms
- bombastic
- declamatory
- large
- orotund
- tumid
- Similar to
- rhetorical
- Related
- turgidity
- turgidness
- flatulence
- turgidity
- turgidness
- flatulence
- pretentiousness
- pretension
- largeness
- bombast
- fustian
- rant
- claptrap
- blah
- 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”
- Synonyms
- puffy
- intumescent
- tumescent
- tumid
- Similar to
- unhealthy
- Related
- tumidity
- tumidness
- tumidity
- tumidness
- tumescence
- swell
- swell up
- intumesce
- tumefy
- tumesce
- intumescence
- intumescency
- intumescence
- intumescency
- swelling
- puffiness
- lump
