tumid adj

1 ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid]

2 abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, turgid]

3 of sexual organs; stiff and rigid [syn: erect]

English

Adjective

tumid

1. swollen, enlarged, bulging
2. cancerous, unhealthy

Derived terms

• tumor

aureate, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug-eyed, bulged, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, expanded, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian, gassy, goggle, goggled, grandiloquent, incrassate, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical, popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, solemn, stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, ventose, ventricose, windy