'Tumid' definitions:
Definition of 'tumid'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
adjective
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]
adjective
Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: tumid, erect]
Definition of 'Tumid'
From: GCIDE
- Tumid \Tu"mid\, a. [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr. tumra strong, fat. Cf. Thumb.]
- 1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Rising above the level; protuberant. [1913 Webster]
- So high as heaved the tumid hills. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. [1913 Webster] -- {Tu"mid*ly}, adv. -- {Tu"mid*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tumid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aureate,
- bellied,
- bloated,
- blown up,
- bombastic,
- bug-eyed,
- bulged,
- dilated,
- distended,
- dropsical,
- edematous,
- enchymatous,
- euphuistic,
- exophthalmic,
- expanded,
- fat,
- flatulent,
- flowery,
- formal,
- fustian,
- gassy,
- goggle,
- goggled,
- grandiloquent,
- incrassate,
- inflated,
- magniloquent,
- mouthy,
- overblown,
- plethoric,
- pompous,
- pontifical,
- popeyed,
- pouched,
- puffed up,
- puffy,
- pursy,
- self-important,
- solemn,
- stilted,
- stuffy,
- swelled,
- swelling,
- swollen,
- tumescent,
- tumorous,
- turgescent,
- turgid,
- ventose,
- ventricose,
- windy