swollen; pompous, bombastic
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Turgid Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
(a.)
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutDistended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
turgid
\tur"gid\ (?), a. [l. turgidus, from turgere to swell.]
1. distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit. a bladder held near the fire grew turgid.
2. swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking. -- tur"gid*ly (#), adv. -- tur"gid*ness , n.
turgid
adj
1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid]
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, tumid]
Swollen
1.being in a state of distension: swollen, tumid
2.bombastic,pompous
*The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.(J.COOPER)
2.bombastic,pompous
*The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.(J.COOPER)
Adjective
1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
(synonym) bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid
(similar) rhetorical
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"
(synonym) bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid
(similar) unhealthy
Turgid Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Turgor pressure pushes the plasma membrane against the cell wall of plant, bacteria, and fungi cells as well as those protist cells which have cell walls. This pressure, turgidity, is caused by the osmotic flow of water from area of low solute concentration outside of the cell into the cell's vacuole, which has a higher solute concentration. Healthy plant cells are turgid and plants rely on turgidity to maintain rigidity. In contrast, this phenomenon is not observed in animal cells which have no cell walls to prevent them from being burst by the flow of water into the cell and must either continually pump out water or live in an isotonic solution where there is no osmotic pressure.
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