Tumid

tumid
    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}]
    3: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: {tumid}, {erect}]
    

Tumid \Tu"mid\, a. [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr.
   tumra strong, fat. Cf. {Thumb}.]
   1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid
      flesh.
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   2. Rising above the level; protuberant.
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            So high as heaved the tumid hills.    --Milton.
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   3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated;
      bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid
      expression; a tumid style.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Tu"mid*ly}, adv. -- {Tu"mid*ness}, n.
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51 Moby Thesaurus words for "tumid":
      aureate, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug-eyed, bulged,
      dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, enchymatous, euphuistic,
      exophthalmic, expanded, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian,
      gassy, goggle, goggled, grandiloquent, incrassate, inflated,
      magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical,
      popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, solemn,
      stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumorous,
      turgescent, turgid, ventose, ventricose, windy