turgid
31 10 2009Adjectives
1. (adj.) bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid;
- ostentatiously lofty in style;
- “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”;
2. (adj.) intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, 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”;