tumid

Speech parts

1. tumid - Adjective

2. tumid - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.

Rising above the level; protuberant.

Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

large erect bombastic puffy turgid orotund declamatory intumescent tumescent flowery fat exaggerated ornate inflated windy
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Antonyms

spartan simple basic stark poor ordinary
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Related terms

tumor turgid tumescent turgescent

Examples

I address myself to the young. They alone will have to listen to me, they alone will be able to understand me. Some people are born already old, drooling specters from the past, cryptograms tumid with poisons: to them, no words or ideas except a single injunction: the end. Francesco Balilla Pratella

a man given to large talk Source: Internet

tumid political prose Source: Internet

hungry children with bloated stomachs Source: Internet

he had a grossly distended stomach Source: Internet

eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

tumescently Tumey tumi tumidity tumidly tumidness