turgid

turgid is a 6-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. 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.
2. adjective. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
3. adjective. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

   "hungry children with bloated stomachs"

   "he had a grossly distended stomach"

   Synonyms: intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid

4. adjective. ostentatiously lofty in style

   "a man given to large talk"

   "tumid political prose"

   Synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid

Synonyms

intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund

Common word forms

turgidly, turgidity, turgidness

Words from these letters

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