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TURGID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does turgid mean?
• TURGID (adjective)
The adjective TURGID has 2 senses:
1. ostentatiously lofty in style
2. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Familiarity information: TURGID used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ostentatiously lofty in style
Synonyms:
bombastic; declamatory; large; orotund; tumid; turgid
Context example:
tumid political prose
Similar:
rhetorical (given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought)
Derivation:
turgidity; turgidness (pompously embellished language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Synonyms:
intumescent; puffy; tumescent; tumid; turgid
Context example:
puffy tumid flesh
Similar:
unhealthy (not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind)
Context examples
He had liked women in that turgid past of his, and been fascinated by some of them, but he had not known what it was to love them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid journalism of 1902.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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