Antonyms for turgid
ˈtɜr dʒɪdturgid

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1. turgidadjective

   Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

   I have a turgid limb.

   Synonyms:
   distended, bloated, swollen, tumid, swelled, inflated

2. turgidadjective

   Tediously pompous or bombastic.

   Synonyms:
   bombastic, grandiose, pompous

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1. bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgidadjective

   ostentatiously lofty in style

   "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

   Antonyms:
   unrhetorical, healthy

   Synonyms:
   pear-shaped, gravid, big, tumid, orotund, rotund, great(p), bombastic, enceinte, expectant, heavy(p), round, with child(p), large, big(p), prominent, intumescent, large(p), tumescent, magnanimous, puffy, erect, declamatory

2. puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgidadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   healthy, unrhetorical

   Synonyms:
   tumid, declamatory, intumescent, orotund, gusty, large, erect, bouffant, bombastic, tumescent, puffy

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