Turgid

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.


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              A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
                                                    --Boyle.
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     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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  turgid
       adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
              "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {declamatory},
               {large}, {orotund}, {tumid}]
       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}, {tumid}]

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

  67 Moby Thesaurus words for "turgid":
     Latinate, 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, 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