2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
2. Rising above the level; protuberant.
So high as heaved the tumid hills. --Milton.
3. Swelling in sound or sense pompous; puffy; inflated;
bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as a tumid
expression; a tumid style. -- {Tu"mid*ly}, adv --
{Tu"mid*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tumid
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {declamatory},
{large}, {orotund}, {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: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffed}, {puffy}, {swollen},
{tumescent}]
3: (physiology) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: {erect}]
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