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turgid |
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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