Turgid
['tɜːdʒɪd] or ['tɝdʒɪd]
Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Typist: Robinson
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Swelled, swollen, bloated, distended, puffed up.[2]. Pompous, bombastic, tumid, puffy, inflated, stilted, grandiloquent, declamatory, rhetorical, sophomorical, high-flown, HIGHFALUTIN.
Edited by Bridget
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TUMULTUOUS]
Inputed by Armand
Examples
- There was a little brusque, turgid contempt for her in his swift gesture, and she seemed to cringe a little. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald, full-limbed and turgid with energy, stood unwilling to go, he was held by the presence of the other man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The electricity was turgid and voluptuously rich, in his limbs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Every one of his limbs was turgid with electric force, and his back was tense like a tiger's, with slumbering fire. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Inputed by Armand