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adj. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.

adj. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated: a turgid bladder; turgid veins.

adj. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

adj. Tediously pompous or bombastic.

adj. 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.

adj. Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous.

In botany, distended by water or other liquid : said primarily of cells or celluar tissue.

Swollen; bloated; tumid; distended beyond its natural or usual state by some internal agent or expansive force: often applied to an enlarged part of the body.

Tumid; pompous; inflated; bombastic: as, a turgid style.

Synonyms Swollen, puffed up.

Stilted, grandiloquent. See turgidness.

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style

adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

"Writing requires discipline, and it can be taught, but you don't find it in turgid poems about Bad Daddies and The Struggle to Be Me and all the other flat, morbid, narcissistic writing that is encouraged by bad teaching."

rhetorical    unhealthy   

turgid palpi   

turgidigitation    turgestion    turgidness    turgor    turgidification    turgescent    turgidity    turgerific    tureen   

swelled    swollen    bloated    inflated    tumid    bombastic    pompous    distended    grandiose   

bombastic    stilted    turbid    grandiloquent    grandiose    florid    murky    rhetorical    high-flown    wordy