turgid
Swollen with excess
Turgid describes something swollen or distended, especially from internal pressure.
Plant cells become turgid when filled with water.
The word applies figuratively to language or style that is pompous, inflated, and overblown: His turgid prose was nearly unreadable.
In both senses, turgid suggests bloat without substance—physical fullness or verbal excess.
Swollen from pressure within
- engorgedSwollen from excess filling
- bloatedSwelled from excess
- puffySwollen with air
- tumescentGrowing distended
tumid · edematous · inflamed · bulging · enlarged · expanded · ballooned · congested
Pretentiously elevated in speech
- pompousAffectedly grand in manner
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- orotundBombastically resonant in speech
- magniloquentUsing pompous, elevated rhetoric
overwrought · purple · declamatory · highfalutin · overblown · fulsome · sonorous · rhetorical
Artificially contrived behavior
- ostentatiousShowily excessive
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- pedanticExcessively concerned with minor rules
- self-importantExaggerating one's own significance
showy · stilted · artificial · posturing · pompous · haughty · snobbish · conceited
distended
Swollen from pressure within
tumescent · tumid · edematous · inflamed · bulging · enlarged · expanded · ballooned · congested · protuberant
grandiloquent
Pretentiously elevated in speech
- pompousAffectedly grand in manner
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- orotundBombastically resonant in speech
magniloquent · overwrought · purple · declamatory · highfalutin · overblown · fulsome · sonorous · rhetorical · extravagant
affected
Artificially contrived behavior
- ostentatiousShowily excessive
- grandiosePretentiously impressive in scale
- pedanticExcessively concerned with minor rules
self-important · showy · stilted · artificial · posturing · pompous · haughty · snobbish · conceited · vainglorious
thick
Having great depth
- heavyOf great mass
- opaqueImpassable to light
- impenetrableImpossible to pass through
- bombastbombast, grandiloquence, magniloquence, pomposity, fustian
- Overblown Wordspompous, bombastic, grandiose, inflated, overblown
- Purple Proseflorid, verbose, overwrought, ornate, flowery
- osmosisosmosis, osmotic pressure, semipermeable membrane, semipermeable, osmometer