turgid

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.

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[Latin turgidus, from turgre, to be swollen.]

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tur·gidi·ty, turgid·ness n.

turgid·ly adv.

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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

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	turgid - ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" bombastic, declamatory, orotund, tumid, large 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" intumescent, tumescent, tumid, puffy unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"

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turgid

adjective pompous, inflated, windy, high-flown, pretentious, grandiose, flowery, overblown, stilted, ostentatious, fulsome, bombastic, grandiloquent, arty-farty (informal) fustian, orotund, magniloquent, sesquipedalian, tumid

Translations

turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj [prose] → pesado

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turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj [speech] → pompeux/euse

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turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj → geschwollen

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turgid [ˈtəːdʒɪd] adj [speech] → ampolloso/a, pomposo/a