turgid

31 10 2009

Adjectives
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”;







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