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TUMID
tumid, erect
(adjective) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid
(adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; “hungry children with bloated stomachs”; “he had a grossly distended stomach”; “eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids”; “swollen hands”; “tumescent tissue”; “puffy tumid flesh”
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
tumid (comparative more tumid, superlative most tumid)
swollen, enlarged, bulging
cancerous, unhealthy
pompous, bombastic
Synonyms
• tumescent
• turgescent
• turgid
Source: Wiktionary
Tu"mid, a. Etym: [L. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. Skr. tumra strong, fat. Cf. Thumb.]
1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
2. Rising above the level; protuberant. So high as heaved the tumid hills. Milton.
3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
– Tu"mid*ly, adv.
– Tu"mid*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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