Associations to the word «Turgid»

TURGID, adjective. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

TURGID, adjective. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

TURGID, adjective. Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose".

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".