turgid
31turgid — [ tə:dʒɪd] adjective 1》 swollen and distended or congested. 2》 (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic. Derivatives turgidity noun turgidly adverb Origin C17: from L. turgidus, from turgere to swell …
32turgid — a. 1. Swelled, swollen, bloated, distended, puffed up. 2. Pompous, bombastic, tumid, puffy, inflated, stilted, grandiloquent, declamatory, rhetorical, ostentatious, turgent, grandiose, fustian, high flown …
33turgid — Swollen or bloated, e.g. the trunk bases of many cycad species …
34turgid — adj See tumid, (defs. 1, 2) …
35turgid — tur·gid …
36turgid — UK [ˈtɜː(r)dʒɪd] / US [ˈtɜrdʒɪd] adjective 1) using language in a way that is complicated and difficult to understand 2) literary swollen …
37turgid — /ˈtɜdʒəd / (say terjuhd) adjective 1. pompous or bombastic, as language, style, etc. 2. swollen; distended; tumid. {Latin turgidus} –turgidity /tɜˈdʒɪdəti/ (say ter jiduhtee), turgidness, noun –turgidly, adverb …
38turgid — Swollen, distended; referring to a cell that is extended as a result of adequate water uptake. Loss of turgidity in plant cells is a sign of water deficit …
39turgid — adj. 1 swollen, inflated, enlarged. 2 (of language) pompous, bombastic. Derivatives: turgidity n. turgidly adv. turgidness n. Etymology: L turgidus f. turgere swell …
40turbid, turgid — It is seldom possible to tell with certainty whether a writer is using turgid in its proper sense or is confusing it with turbid, but confusion would appear to be the case here: She insisted on reading the entire turgid work aloud, a dusk to… …
