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·gid i·ty, turgid·ness n.tur gid·ly adv. |
turgid [tur-jid]
Adjective
1. (of language) pompous, boring, and hard to understand
2. (of water or mud) unpleasantly thick and brown [Latin turgere to swell]
turgidity n
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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" |
turgid
adjective pompous, inflated, windy, high-flown, pretentious, grandiose, flowery, overblown, stilted, ostentatious, fulsome, bombastic, grandiloquent, arty-farty (informal) fustian, orotund, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, tumid
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