turgid : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: turgid	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for turgid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
turgid adj ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" Synonym(s): bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid 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" Synonym(s): puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid
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"gidly}, adv. -- {Tur"gidness}, n.