| Main Entry: | tumescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
Synonyms: |
bloated, bulging, bulgy, bursting, distended, distent, enlarged, expanding, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumid |
| Main Entry: | distended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
Synonyms: |
bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| Main Entry: | flatulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, long-winded |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, inflated, oratorical, overblown, pompous, prolix, shallow, superficial, swollen, tedious, tumescent, tumid, turgid, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
brief, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | inflated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exaggerated |
Synonyms: |
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 |
Antonyms: |
deflated, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | rhetorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wordy; flowery in speech |
Synonyms: |
articulate, aureate, bombastic, declamatory, eloquent, embellished, euphuistic, exaggerated, flamboyant, flashy*, florid, fluent, glib*, grand, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, hyperbolic, imposing, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, oratorical, ornate, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overwrought, pompous, pretentious, showy, silver-tongued, sonorous, stilted, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, verbose, vocal, voluble, windy |
Antonyms: |
concise |
| Main Entry: | swollen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enlarged |
Synonyms: |
bloated, bulgy, distended, distent, inflamed, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumescent, tumid |
Antonyms: |
compressed, contracted, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
Synonyms: |
bloated, distended, inflated, puffy, tumescent, tumid |
| Notes: | turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical bodies |
| Main Entry: | tumid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bloated |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, distended, enlarged, inflated, overblown, pompous, protuberant, puffy, swollen, tumescent, turgid |
Antonyms: |
shrunken |
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bombastic |
Synonyms: |
bloated, distended, enlarged, grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, ornate, pompous, pretentious, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid |
Antonyms: |
plain, simple |