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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

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]

3. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid;
[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