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turgid

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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: turgid
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bombastic

Synonyms:

grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, stuffy, tumid

Antonyms:

humble, modest, quiet, reserved, self-effacing
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
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: elegant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: beautiful, tasteful

Synonyms:

affected, appropriate, apt, aristocratic, artistic, august, chic, choice, classic, clever, comely, courtly, cultivated, cultured, dainty, delicate, dignified, effective, exquisite, fancy, fashionable, fine, genteel, graceful, grand, handsome, ingenious, luxurious, majestic, modish, neat, nice, noble, opulent, ornamented, ornate, ostentatious, overdone, polished, rare, recherché, refined, rich, select, simple, stately, stuffy, stylish, stylized, sumptuous, superior, turgid, well-bred

Antonyms:

crude, inelegant, rough, ugly, unfashionable, unrefined, unsophisticated, untasteful
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: high-flown
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: exalted, lofty

Synonyms:

bombastic, elaborate, exaggerated, extravagant, grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, showy, turgid
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: overblown
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: excessive, too much

Synonyms:

aureate, bombastic, disproportionate, euphuistic, flowery, fulsome, grandiloquent, hyped up, immoderate, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, overdone, pompous, pretentious, profuse, rhetorical, sonorous, superfluous, turgid, undue, verbose, windy

Antonyms:

underrated, undervalued
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