Dictionary 1. (a.) Swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; as, a turgid limb\; turgid fruit.2. (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. Thesaurus Latinate aureate awkward bellied bloated blown up bombastic bug-eyed bulged cramped cumbrous dilated distended dropsical edematous elephantine enchymatous euphuistic exophthalmic fat flatulent flowery forced formal fustian gassy goggle goggled grandiloquent guinde halting heavy incrassate inflated inkhorn labored leaden lumbering magniloquent mouthy overblown plethoric pompous ponderous pontifical popeyed pouched puffed up puffy pursy self-important sesquipedalian solemn stiff stilted stuffy swelled swelling swollen tumescent tumid tumorous turgescent unwieldy ventose ventricose windy |