turgid

turgid
    adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
           talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic},
           {declamatory}, {large}, {orotund}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
    2: 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" [syn:
       {puffy}, {intumescent}, {tumescent}, {tumid}, {turgid}]
    

Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), a. [L. turgidus, from turgere
   to swell.]
   1. 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.
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            A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
                                                  --Boyle.
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   2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
      bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Tur"gid*ly}, adv. -- {Tur"gid*ness}, n.
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67 Moby Thesaurus words for "turgid":
      Latinate, aureate, awkward, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic,
      bug-eyed, bulged, cramped, cumbrous, dilated, distended, dropsical,
      edematous, elephantine, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, fat,
      flatulent, flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, goggle,
      goggled, grandiloquent, guinde, halting, heavy, incrassate,
      inflated, inkhorn, labored, leaden, lumbering, magniloquent,
      mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, ponderous, pontifical,
      popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important,
      sesquipedalian, solemn, stiff, stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling,
      swollen, tumescent, tumid, tumorous, turgescent, unwieldy, ventose,
      ventricose, windy