Thesaurus / tumid
FEEDBACKsynonyms for tumid
synonyms for tumid
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing 
antonyms for tumid
MOST RELEVANT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
TRY USING tumid
See how your sentence looks with different synonyms.
How to use tumid in a sentence
As to Vatinius, who had tumours in his neck, and was on one occasion pleading a cause, Cicero called him a tumid orator.
PLUTARCH'S LIVES, VOLUME IVAUBREY STEWARTIn endeavouring to disengage it, the animal bit him by the lip, which became instantly tumid.
AN ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY IN NEW SOUTH WALES, VOL. 1DAVID COLLINSFor the relief of the tumid, spongy condition of the gums, astringent and antiseptic mouth washes are to be employed.
ESSENTIALS OF DISEASES OF THE SKINHENRY WEIGHTMAN STELWAGONValve linear, capitate at each end and tumid in the middle; stri distinctly punctate; pseudoraphe indistinct, or not apparent.
THE DIATOMACEAE OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITYCHARLES SUMNER BOYERFrustule hyaline, rectangular, slightly tumid in the middle, with rounded angles.
THE DIATOMACEAE OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITYCHARLES SUMNER BOYERFrustule slightly attenuated at the ends, truncate, somewhat tumid in the middle and flexed.
THE DIATOMACEAE OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITYCHARLES SUMNER BOYERValve as in affinis, but with tumid and excised ventral margin; a punctum is found on the ventral side (not shown in the figure).
THE DIATOMACEAE OF PHILADELPHIA AND VICINITYCHARLES SUMNER BOYERFrom the days of Horace downwards it has been permitted to actors and orators to pass rapidly from the comic to the tumid strain.
POLITICAL AND LITERARY ESSAYS, 1908-1913EVELYN BARINGThe term is applied more particularly to the tumid part in the hinge of bivalve shells on which the ligament is fixed.
A CONCHOLOGICAL MANUALGEORGE BRETTINGHAM SOWERBYIt becomes grander, sometimes wilder, sometimes more swelling, even tumid.
SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDYA. C. BRADLEYWORDS RELATED TO TUMID
- 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
- bombastic
- declamatory
- dramatic
- elaborate
- elocutionary
- eloquent
- expressive
- fervid
- forceful
- gesticulative
- gesturing
- grandiloquent
- histrionic
- impassioned
- important
- imposing
- inflated
- lofty
- long-winded
- loud
- noble
- noisy
- orotund
- ostentatious
- persuasive
- pompous
- senatorial
- stagy
- stentorian
- stylistic
- theatrical
- tumid
- verbose
- vivid
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.