'Turgid' definitions:
Definition of 'turgid'
(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]
Definition of 'Turgid'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'turgid'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Latinate,
- 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