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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. ostentatiously lofty in style;
- Example: "a man given to large talk"
- Example: "tumid political prose"
[syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]

2. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas;
- Example: "hungry children with bloated stomachs"
- Example: "he had a grossly distended stomach"
- Example: "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"
- Example: "swollen hands"
- Example: "tumescent tissue"
- Example: "puffy tumid flesh"
[syn: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Turgid \Tur"gid\ (t[^u]r"j[i^]d), 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.
      [1913 Webster]

            A bladder . . . held near the fire grew turgid.
                                                  --Boyle.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious;
      bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
      [1913 Webster] -- Tur"gid*ly, adv. -- Tur"gid*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

turgid
    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]