Found 3 hits - Term: tumid, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tumid \tu"mid\, a. l. tumidus, fr. tumere to swell; cf. skr.
tumra strong, fat. cf. thumb.
1. swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid
flesh.
1913 webster
2. rising above the level; protuberant.
1913 webster
so high as heaved the tumid hills. --milton.
1913 webster
3. swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated;
bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid
expression; a tumid style.
1913 webster -- tu"midly, adv. -- tu"midness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
thumb tu"midly tu"midness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
tumid
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" syn: bombastic, declamatory,
large, orotund, turgid
2: 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"
syn: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen,
tumescent, turgid
3: of sexual organs; stiff and rigid syn: erect
see also:
bombastic declamatory large orotund turgid bloated
distended puffed puffy swollen tumescent
erect
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
51 moby thesaurus words for "tumid":
aureate, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug-eyed, bulged,
dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, enchymatous, euphuistic,
exophthalmic, expanded, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian,
gassy, goggle, goggled, grandiloquent, incrassate, inflated,
magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical,
popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, solemn,
stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumorous,
turgescent, turgid, ventose, ventricose, windy
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