turgid
tur·gid (tûr
j
d)
adj.
1. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.
2. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated: a turgid bladder; turgid veins.
[Latin turgidus, from turg
re, to be swollen.]
tur·gidi·ty, turgid·ness n.
turgid·ly adv.
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Adj. |
1. |
turgid – ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”rhetorical – given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; “mere rhetorical frippery” |
2. |
turgid – 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”unhealthy – not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; “unhealthy ulcers” |
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