Tumid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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     2. Rising above the level; protuberant.
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              So high as heaved the tumid hills.    --Milton.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tumid
       adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
              "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {declamatory},
               {large}, {orotund}, {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: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffed}, {puffy}, {swollen},
           {tumescent}, {turgid}]
       3: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: {erect}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "tumid":
     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