turgid
adjective
[ ˈtəːdʒɪd ]
• swollen and distended or congested.
• "a turgid and fast-moving river"
Similar:
swollen,
congested,
in spate,
in flood,
• (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic.
• "some turgid verses on the death of Prince Albert"
Similar:
bombastic,
pompous,
overblown,
overripe,
inflated,
high-flown,
affected,
pretentious,
grandiose,
florid,
flowery,
ornate,
magniloquent,
grandiloquent,
rhetorical,
oratorical,
orotund,
stodgy,
ponderous,
laboured,
strained,
stilted,
highfalutin,
purple,
windy,
tumid,
euphuistic,
fustian,
sesquipedalian,
Ossianic,
Origin:
early 17th century: from Latin turgidus, from turgere ‘to swell’.
