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turgid

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tur·gid  (tûrjd)
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 turgre, to be swollen.]

tur·gidi·ty, turgid·ness n.
turgid·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
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.turgidturgid - 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.turgidturgid - 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
Translations
Spanish turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj [prose] → pesado
French turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj [speech] → pompeux/euse
German turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adjgeschwollen
Italian turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj [speech] → ampolloso/a, pomposo/a

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He had liked women in that turgid past of his, and been fascinated by some of them, but he had not known what it was to love them.
I've always used to get up with the lark, till I came under the petrifying influence of your turgid intellect.
And so, in safety, they made the opposite shore, Korak perched high and dry above the turgid flood.
 
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