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Synonyms for turgid
ˈtɜr dʒɪdturgid
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Princeton's WordNet
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgidadjective
ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
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, declamatoryAntonyms:
unrhetorical, healthypuffy, 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"
Synonyms:
tumid, declamatory, intumescent, orotund, gusty, large, erect, bouffant, bombastic, tumescent, puffyAntonyms:
healthy, unrhetorical
Dictionary of English Synonymes
turgidadjective
turgidadjective
Synonyms:
pompous, bombastic, tumid, puffy, inflated, stilted, grandiloquent, declamatory, rhetorical, sophomorical, high-flown, HIGHFALUTIN
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#330 | big | |
#462 | large | |
#1309 | round | |
#8513 | prominent | |
#12599 | puffy | |
#17242 | erect | |
#21156 | swollen | |
#25118 | inflated | |
#34487 | bloated | |
#38946 | expectant | |
#51574 | pompous | |
#52290 | swelled | |
#53195 | grandiose | |
#66678 | gusty | |
#79267 | bombastic | |
#97682 | magnanimous | |
#100106 | distended | |
#101442 | tumescent | |
#115955 | turgid | |
#137636 | enceinte | |
#141523 | rotund | |
#145397 | gravid | |
#161968 | bouffant | |
#170092 | intumescent | |
#290105 | declamatory |
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