turgid English

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What does turgid mean?

turgid

— adjective (= puffy, tumescent, tumid) 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

— adjective (= large, tumid) ostentatiously lofty in style a man given to large talk tumid political prose

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swollen

bombastic

tumid

tumescent

pompous

orotund

puffy

magniloquent

large

intumescent

high-flown

grandiloquent

declamatory

turgescent

turgent

thick

stilted

splurging

sententious

purple

pontifical

plethoric

oncootic

highfaluting

high-sounding

hifalutin

grandiose

flatulent

flamboyant

exaggerated

consequential

close

blubber

bloated