Synonyms for tumescent
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Except for the occasional mosquito, there was no sound save the tumescent sea and his voice.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR TUMESCENT
distended
adjectiveswollenflatulent
adjectivepretentious, long-windedinflated
adjectiveexaggerated- aggrandized
- amplified
- augmented
- aureate
- bloated
- bombastic
- diffuse
- dilated
- distended
- dropsical
- enlarged
- euphuistic
- extended
- filled
- flatulent
- flowery
- fustian
- grandiloquent
- grown
- magnified
- magniloquent
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overestimated
- pompous
- pretentious
- prolix
- puffed
- pumped up
- ranting
- rhapsodical
- rhetorical
- showy
- spread
- stretched
- surcharged
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- windy
- wordy
rhetorical
adjectivewordy; flowery in speech- articulate
- aureate
- bombastic
- declamatory
- eloquent
- embellished
- euphuistic
- exaggerated
- flamboyant
- flashy
- florid
- fluent
- glib
- grand
- grandiloquent
- grandiose
- high-flown
- hyperbolic
- imposing
- inflated
- magniloquent
- mouthy
- oratorical
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overblown
- overdone
- overwrought
- pompous
- pretentious
- showy
- silver-tongued
- sonorous
- stilted
- swollen
- tumescent
- tumid
- turgid
- verbose
- vocal
- voluble
- windy
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