Synonyms for turgid
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Bloated — distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force
bloated, distended, swollen, tumescent, inflated, puffy, tumid, puffed up, protuberant, turgescent, intumescent
2. Bombastic — overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic
bombastic, pompous, stilted, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiose, large, orotund, grandiloquent, magniloquent, pretentious, highfalutin
Definitions
- adj. 1
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- adj. 2
Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
Related words
- Word family
- turgidly turgescence turgescent turgidity turgidness turgor
Example sentences
- swollen You have a cold and your lymph nodes are swollen.
- bloated I feel bloated after eating a plate of Pad Thai.
- pompous It's much too pompous for such a trivial thing.
- bombastic I don't usually like bombastic music.
By length
- 5 letters
- large1, puffy2, tumid
- 7 letters
- swollen2, bloated2, pompous2, stilted2, orotund
- 8 letters
- inflated3
- 9 letters
- grandiose3, bombastic3, distended3, tumescent3
- 10 letters
- rhetorical4, turgescent
- 11 letters
- pretentious3, declamatory, highfalutin4, protuberant, intumescent
- 12 letters
- magniloquent
- 13 letters
- grandiloquent4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (puffy2 = 2 syllables).