All turgid synonyms
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T t adjective turgid
- euphuistic — Of or pertaining to euphuism.
- overambitious — having ambition; eagerly desirous of achieving or obtaining success, power, wealth, a specific goal, etc.: ambitious students.
- enlarged — Simple past tense and past participle of enlarge.
- caricatured — Simple past tense and past participle of caricature.
- elegant — Pleasingly graceful and stylish in appearance or manner.
- windy — accompanied or characterized by wind: a windy day.
- longwinded — Alternative spelling of long-winded.
- overestimated — Simple past tense and past participle of overestimate.
- overblown — (of a flower) past the stage of full bloom; more than full-blown: an overblown rose.
- diffuse — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
- wordy — characterized by or given to the use of many, or too many, words; verbose: She grew impatient at his wordy reply.
adj turgid
- hyperbolic — having the nature of hyperbole; exaggerated.
- inflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.
- highfaluting — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hyped up — intensively or excessively stimulated or exaggerated: an economy hyped-up by arms spending.
- magniloquent — speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
- bloated — If someone's body or a part of their body is bloated, it is much larger than normal, usually because it has a lot of liquid or gas inside it.
- banausic — merely mechanical; materialistic; utilitarian
- intumescent — a swelling up, as with congestion.
- bombastic — If you describe someone as bombastic, you are criticizing them for trying to impress other people by saying things that sound impressive but have little meaning.
- dropsical — of, like, or affected with dropsy.
- flatulent — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- high-flown — extravagant in aims, pretensions, etc.
- distended — increased, as in size, volume, etc.; expanded; dilated: the distended nostrils of the terrified horse.
adverb turgid
- diffusely — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.