2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Turgid \Tur"gid\, 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.
A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
--Boyle.
2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
bombastic; pompous; as a turgid style of speaking. --
{Tur"gid*ly}, adv -- {Tur"gid*ness}, n.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
turgid
adj : ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: {bombastic}, {declamatory},
{large}, {orotund}, {tumid}]
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