turgid
[adjective]
Synonyms: inflated, dropsical, dropsied, flatulent, overblown, tumescent, tumid, windy, rhetorical, aureate, bombastic, euphuistic, flowery, grandiloquent, magniloquent, swelling, swollen

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Related Words: swelling, turgescent

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tur‧gid /ˈtɜːdʒəd, ˈtɜːdʒɪd $ ˈtɜːr-/ adjective formal
[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: turgidus, from turgere 'to be swollen']

1. turgid writing or speech is boring and difficult to understand Synonym : dull:
a turgid Social Science textbook

2. full and swollen with liquid or air
—turgidity /tɜːˈdʒɪdəti, tɜːˈdʒɪdɪti $ tɜːr-/ noun [uncountable]

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