tumid

adjbloated

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Synonyms for tumid

adj bloated

Antonyms for tumid

shrunken

More words related to tumid

bombastic

adjective. pompous, grandiloquent

distended

adjective. swollen

enlarged

adjective. increased

flatulent

adjective. pretentious, long-winded

Word Origin & History

"morbidly swollen," 1540s, from Latin tumidus, from tumere "to swell" (see thigh). Figurative sense (in reference to prose, etc.) is attested from 1640s.

Example Sentences for tumid

The tumid nothingness of pure transcendentalism he has always abhorred.

With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.

The listener's face was tumid and discoloured, his eyes bloodshot.

A low-spired, globular shell with a large, tumid, smooth body-whorl.

And of some tumid metaphors he says, "All too forced and over-charged."

The poetry is not of that tumid nature which Pindar uses, but of the graceful simplicity of Homer's verse.

In another place in the same lives his tumid and prolix eloquence disembogues itself to prove, what no man ever doubted, viz.

A tumid abdomen, rapid emaciation, and anmia are far more valuable signs of the disease of these glands.

Note the tumid convex clypeus which composes most of the anterior aspect of the head.

There are some pleasing passages in Arnobius, but on the whole he is a tumid and a tedious author.

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bombastic

distended

enlarged

flatulent

inflated

oratorical

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distended

enlarged

flatulent

inflated

oratorical

Synonyms for tumid

bombastic