[syn: tumid, erect]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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