Turgid synonyms

tûr'jĭd

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inflated (related)
Full of empty or pretentious language; bombastic.
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swollen
Expanded by or as if by internal pressure; distended:
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tumid
Inflated or pompous
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bloated
Much bigger than desired:
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distended
(Biology) gravid.
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puffy
Fat; obese
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bombastic
(Archaic) Inflated, overfilled.
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pompous
Characterized by exaggerated stateliness; pretentious, as in speech or manner; self-important
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grandiloquent
(Of a person, their language or writing) given to using language in a showy way by using an excessive amount of difficult words to impress others; bombastic; turgid
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enlarged (related)
Swollen
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grandiose
Seeming or trying to seem very important; pompous and showy
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pretentious
Marked by an extravagant or presumptuous outward show; ostentatious:
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flatulent
Windy or empty in speech; pompous; pretentious
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overblown
Past the stage of full bloom:
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windy
Resembling the wind in speed, force, or variability:
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increase (related)
Filled up with or as if with something insubstantial
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plain (related)
Common in rank or station; average; ordinary:
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intumescent
That becomes swollen, especially upon exposure to heat
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declamatory
Having the quality of a declamation.
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large
Understanding and tolerant; liberal:
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orotund
Pompous and bombastic:
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wordy (related)
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banal (related)
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insipid (related)
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uninspired (related)
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trite (related)
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disjointed (related)
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self-indulgent (related)
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cliched (related)
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purple
The definition of purple is something that is a color that combines red and blue.
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Turgid Sentence Examples

  • Cut plants are allowed to wilt, or become flaccid, before removal from the field, to prevent injury to the turgid leaves.

  • In addition to its usefulness in maintaining a turgid state of the young cells without which growth cannot proceed, water is itself a plant food-material and as absorbed from the soil contains dissolved in it all the mineral food constituents needed by plants for healthy nutrition.

  • It is needed for photosynthesis and keeping the cells turgid.

  • Clement professed to despite rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid, involved and difficult.

  • The collar-pores are remarkable for their constancy; this is probably owing to the fact that they have become adapted to a special function, the inhalation of water to render the collar turgid during progression.

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