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Dictionary: tur·gid   (tûr'jĭd) pronunciation
adj.
  1. Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent: turgid prose.
  2. Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated: a turgid bladder; turgid veins.

[Latin turgidus, from turgēre, to be swollen.]

turgidity tur·gid'i·ty or tur'gid·ness n.
turgidly tur'gid·ly adv.

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adjective

    Filled up with or as if with something insubstantial: flatulent, inflated, overblown, tumescent, tumid, windy. See increase/decrease, plain/fancy.

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adj

Definition: bombastic
Antonyms: plain, simple


Distended and congested, usually with blood.

Swollen and congested.

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pronunciation

IN BRIEF: Ostentatiously lofty in style.

pronunciation The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable to war. — Henry Cabot Lodge (1902-1985)

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - hævet, opsvulmet, svulstig

Nederlands (Dutch)
troebel, bombastisch

Français (French)
adj. - boursouflé, gonflé

Deutsch (German)
adj. - schwülstig, geschwollen

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - πρησμένος, φουσκωμένος, (μτφ.) στομφώδης, πομπώδης

Italiano (Italian)
turgido

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - túrgido (m), inchado (m), bombástico (m)

Русский (Russian)
опухший, вздутый, напыщенный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - turgente, ampuloso, hinchado

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - svullen, uppsvälld, svulstig, bombastisk

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
肿胀的, 浮肿的, 夸张的, 浮夸的

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 腫脹的, 浮腫的, 誇張的, 浮誇的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 부어 오른, 종창성의, 과장된

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 腫れ上がった, 誇張した

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) طنان, منتفخ, ورم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮נפוח, נמלץ, מנופח, בומבסטי‬


 
 

 

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