Thesaurus: tumid

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1. a. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
2. a. Rising above the level; protuberant.
3. a. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
4. adj. ostentatiously lofty in style
5. adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
6. adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
7. 1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. 2. Rising above the level; protuberant. So high as heaved the tumid hills. Milton. 3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. -- Tu"mid*ly, adv. -- Tu"mid*ness, n.
8. s. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid