turgid

adjective

Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent.

adjective

Swollen or distended, as from a fluid; bloated.

In botany, distended by water or other liquid : said primarily of cells or celluar tissue.

Swollen; bloated; tumid; distended beyond its natural or usual state by some internal agent or expansive force: often applied to an enlarged part of the body.

Tumid; pompous; inflated; bombastic: as, a turgid style.

Synonyms Swollen, puffed up.

Stilted, grandiloquent. See turgidness.

adjective

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; — especially applied to an enlarged part of the body.

adjective

Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous.

adjective

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