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turgid /ˈtəːdʒɪd /adjective1Swollen and distended or congested: a turgid and fast-moving river...- Pale sunlight filters through the trees that overhang the water's edge, throwing veiled patches of gold onto the turgid brown river where cattle drink under the watchful eye of a young herdsman.
- She talked of her French ancestors who swam 30 miles down the turgid Mississippi river from Canada to St. Paul, Minnesota.
- The river is a brown, turgid worm as broad as a peaty salmon-spawn stream.
Synonyms swollen, congested; in spate, in flood 2(Of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic: some turgid verses on the death of Prince Albert...- Its style is turgid and convoluted.
- The style was turgid, the characters were poorly outlined and too ‘original’.
- The majority of them are written in a boring, turgid style.
Synonyms bombastic, pompous, overblown, overripe, inflated, high-flown, affected, pretentious, grandiose, florid, flowery, ornate, magniloquent, grandiloquent, rhetorical, oratorical, orotund; stodgy, ponderous, laboured, strained, stilted informal highfalutin, purple, windy rare tumid, euphuistic, fustian, sesquipedalian, Ossianic Derivatives turgidity /təːˈdʒɪdɪti/ noun ...- The subsequent wilting phase affects the turgidity of the whole flower and there is a loss of colour intensity.
- Those who post articles here or set up new websites aren't afraid of length or turgidity, and this is territory where issues is not a bad word.
- Any fears of unnecessary verbosity and turgidity are misplaced.
turgidly /ˈtəːdʒɪdli/ adverb ...- The keyboards were among the worst, least responsive and accurate I've ever used anywhere, and the operating system seemed turgidly slow and reluctant even when compared with my four-year old Celeron 400 system.
- I'm not referring here to fidgeting uncomfortably while an unseasoned actor lurches turgidly through thousands of rhyming couplets.
- The day I was there, the head of the OEB hearing panel was turgidly churning through a ruling on energy conservation plans.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin turgidus, from turgere 'to swell'. |