1. turgid - Adjective
2. turgid - Adjective Satellite
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.
Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNothing so closely approaches a grand style as turgid nonsense: the ridiculous is one of the extremes of the subtle. Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. James Fenimore Cooper
A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best. Tom Rachman
My own concepts in this regard are easy and clear, and I am sure that the word "simplistic” will be used by my critics. These folk are callow and turgid of intellect; I am reassured by their howls and yelps. Jack Vance
a man given to large talk Source: Internet
tumid political prose Source: Internet