Dictionary Entry
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
- 1adjective
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.
- 2adjective
Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
- 3adjective
abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
"hungry children with bloated stomachs"
"he had a grossly distended stomach"
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- 4adjective
ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"
"tumid political prose"
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