Turgid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Turgid is an adjective meaning Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
Meaning
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
More Meanings
- Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Example Sentences
I have a turgid limb.
Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]
The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains.
Published TV-scholarship sure reflects this mood. And the numbingly dull quality to most “literary” television analyses is due less to the turgid abstraction scholars employ to make television seem an OK object of aesthetic inquiry […]
Synonyms for turgid
Depending on context, synonyms include bloated, distended, inflated, swelled, swollen, tumescent.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tumid, large, bombastic, orotund, declamatory, rhetorical.
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