| 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: | bombastic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous, grandiloquent |
Synonyms: |
aureate, balderdash, big-talking, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, full of hot air, fustian, grandiose, high-flown, highfalutin, histrionic, inflated, loudmouthed, magniloquent, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, ranting, rhapsodic, rhetorical, sonorous, stuffed shirt, swollen, tumid, turgid, verbose, windbag, windy, wordy |
Antonyms: |
humble, quiet, reserved, restrained |
| 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: | packed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full |
Synonyms: |
arranged, awash, brimful, brimming, bundled, chock, chock-full, compact, compressed, congested, consigned, crammed, crowded, filled, full to the gills, jam-packed, jammed, loaded, mobbed, overflowing, overloaded, packed like sardines, seething, serried, stuffed, swarming, to the roof, tumid, up to the hilt, up to the rafters, wall-to-wall, wrapped |
Antonyms: |
deserted, empty |
| Main Entry: | pretentious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | snobbish, conceited |
Synonyms: |
affected, arty, assuming, aureate, big*, bombastic, chichi*, conspicuous, euphuistic, exaggerated, extravagant, feigned, flamboyant, flashy, flaunting, flowery, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, high-sounding, highfaluting, hollow, imposing, inflated, jazzy, la-di-da, lofty, magniloquent, mincing, ornate, ostentatious, overambitious, overblown, pompous, puffed up, put-on, rhetorical, showy, specious, splashy, stilted, swank, too-too, tumid, turgid, utopian, vainglorious |
Antonyms: |
humble, modest, unconceited |
| 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: | tumescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
Synonyms: |
bloated, bulging, bulgy, bursting, distended, distent, enlarged, expanding, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumid |