Synonyms of the word turgid


TURGIDBLOATED - BOMBASTIC - DECLAMATORY - DISTENDED - INTUMESCENT - LARGE - OROTUND - PUFFED - PUFFY - RHETORICAL - SWOLLEN - TUMESCENT - TUMID - UNHEALTHY

turgid

  • adj. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
  • adj. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

bloated

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of bloat.
  • adj. Swollen with fluid or gas.
  • adj. Excessively or extremely large or wealthy.
  • adj. (computing, of software) Excessively overloaded with features, known as bloatware.
  • adj. (of food) Slightly salted and lightly smoked (as in bloated herring).

bombastic

  • adj. (of a person, their language or writing) showy in speech and given to using flowery or elaborate terms;…
  • adj. High-sounding but with little meaning.
  • adj. (archaic) Inflated, overfilled.

declamatory

  • adj. Having the quality of a declamation.
  • adj. Pretentiously lofty in style; bombastic.

distended

  • adj. Extended or expanded, as from internal pressure; swollen.
  • adj. (biology) gravid.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of distend.

intumescent

  • adj. That becomes swollen, especially upon exposure to heat.
  • n. Any substance that swells on exposure to heat, thus increasing in volume and decreasing in density.

large

  • adj. Of considerable or relatively great size or extent.
  • adj. (obsolete) Abundant; ample.
  • adj. (archaic) Full in statement; diffuse; profuse.
  • adj. (obsolete) Free; unencumbered.
  • adj. (obsolete) Unrestrained by decorum; said of language.
  • adj. (nautical) Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; said of the wind when it is…
  • n. (music, obsolete) An old musical note, equal to two longas, four breves, or eight semibreves.
  • n. (obsolete) Liberality, generosity.
  • n. (slang, plural: large) A thousand dollars/pounds.
  • n. A large serving of something.

orotund

  • adj. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
  • adj. Pompous; bombastic.

puffed

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of puff.
  • adj. Inflated or swollen.
  • adj. Consisting of a puff.
  • adj. (of cereals) Expanded by the use of steam.
  • adj. (informal) Synonym of puffed out (panting from exercise).

puffy

  • adj. Of or pertaining to puffs or puffiness; being pillow-like, exhibiting swelling, inflated.
  • adj. Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.

rhetorical

  • adj. Part of or similar to rhetoric, the use of language as a means to persuade.
  • adj. Not earnest, or presented only for the purpose of an argument.

swollen

  • adj. distended.
  • v. past participle of swell.

tumescent

  • adj. swollen or distended with fluid, as of erectile tissue.
  • adj. inflated or overblown.

tumid

  • adj. swollen, enlarged, bulging.
  • adj. cancerous, unhealthy.
  • adj. pompous, bombastic.

unhealthy

  • adj. characterized by, or conducive to poor health.
  • adj. sick or ill.
  • adj. tending to corrupt.
  • adj. characterized by disturbed mental health.

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