Definition for Turgid:

• Distended or swollen beyond the natural size; bloated; as, a turgid stream of water; turgid veins; inflated; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style in writing.

Synonyms for Turgid:

• adj.

  •exaggerated (adjective)
  • inflated.
  •increased (adjective)
  • enlarged.
  •periphrastic (adjective)
  • periphrastic.
  •pretentious (adjective)
  • pretentious.
  •swollen (adjective)
  • tumid,
  • bloated,
  • inflated,
  • tumescent,
  • puffy,
  • Distended.
  •talkative (adjective)
  • wordy.
  •tumid (adjective)
  • protuberant.
  •wordy (adjective)
  • pleonastic.

• n.

  •
  • conversational,
  • economical,
  • diffuse,
  • crisp,
  • chatty,
  • clean,
  • discursive,
  • articulate,
  • circuitous.
  •
  • plain,
  • flatulent,
  • increase,
  • overblown,
  • inflated,
  • windy.
  •pompous (noun)
  • pompous,
  • grandiloquent,
  • purple.
  •swollen (noun)
  • engorged,
  • puffed-up,
  • enlarged,
  • inflated.
  •turgid (noun)
  • orotund,
  • large,
  • puffed,
  • swollen,
  • tumescent,
  • rhetorical,
  • tumid,
  • bloated,
  • unhealthy,
  • bombastic,
  • declamatory,
  • Distended,
  • puffy.

• v.

  •increased (verb)
  • enlarged.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • flatulent,
  • unreadable.
  •
  • overblown,
  • windy.
  •distended
  • inflated,
  • Distended.
  •pompous
  • sententious.
  •swollen
  • swollen,
  • engorged,
  • puffed-up.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gibbous,
  • unwieldy,
  • pontifical,
  • pursy,
  • diffuse,
  • flatulent,
  • mislead,
  • Incrassate,
  • mannered,
  • colourless,
  • generous,
  • abrupt,
  • wordy,
  • boring,
  • jutting,
  • expectant,
  • hump,
  • bulge,
  • dropsical,
  • enlarged,
  • loquacious,
  • verbose,
  • distension,
  • Inkhorn,
  • grand,
  • jaunty,
  • barbarous,
  • stodgy,
  • ornate,
  • misinform,
  • proud,
  • enceinte,
  • Gairish,
  • expansive,
  • chatty,
  • expanded,
  • bloat,
  • wooden,
  • gorged,
  • macroscopical,
  • talkative,
  • dilated,
  • protrusive,
  • extrusive,
  • overdone,
  • verbalize,
  • Goggled,
  • flashy,
  • plethoric,
  • ornament,
  • speak,
  • liberal,
  • ostentatious,
  • enchymatous,
  • solemn,
  • gusty,
  • garish,
  • flashing,
  • high-flown,
  • puff,
  • bouffant,
  • bump,
  • influential,
  • windy,
  • bland,
  • Patulous,
  • formal,
  • cumbrous,
  • Blubbered,
  • egotistical,
  • clean,
  • Turgescent,
  • hifalutin,
  • flowery,
  • bulbous,
  • egotistic,
  • Flabelliform,
  • grandiloquent,
  • ponderous,
  • crisp,
  • growth,
  • inflated,
  • huffing,
  • beetling,
  • Intumescent,
  • rambling,
  • flamboyant,
  • varicose,
  • swelled,
  • lofty,
  • unpolished,
  • cramped,
  • leaden,
  • oversized,
  • ventricose,
  • dull,
  • overinflated,
  • economical,
  • pedestrian,
  • articulate,
  • awkward,
  • edematous,
  • blister,
  • Tumorous,
  • obese,
  • magniloquent,
  • ungraceful,
  • rich,
  • unnatural,
  • Uncourtly,
  • laboured,
  • protuberant,
  • stiff,
  • increase,
  • stilted,
  • artificial,
  • clumsy,
  • harsh,
  • larger,
  • euphemistic,
  • prolix,
  • gay,
  • bug-eyed,
  • magnanimous,
  • overgrown,
  • showy,
  • queer,
  • exaggerated,
  • humdrum,
  • goggle,
  • boastful,
  • sententious,
  • inelegant,
  • palatial,
  • convex,
  • crude,
  • ventose,
  • protrusion,
  • protruding,
  • Exophthalmic,
  • swell,
  • rotund,
  • mouthy,
  • bulging,
  • gassy,
  • lumbering,
  • purple,
  • graceless,
  • Bulged,
  • ho-hum,
  • prominent,
  • puffiness,
  • discursive,
  • flat,
  • Flaunting,
  • unrelaxed,
  • flaming,
  • forced,
  • nub,
  • frothy,
  • inflammation,
  • blown,
  • overhanging,
  • pleonastic,
  • gravid,
  • breathing heavily,
  • unimaginative,
  • abdominous,
  • Tumefying,
  • dry-as-dust,
  • flooding,
  • outsized,
  • Big-sounding,
  • elephantine,
  • labored,
  • engorged,
  • Sesquipedal,
  • tumor,
  • weep,
  • periphrastic,
  • pedantic,
  • heavy,
  • overblown,
  • pear-shaped,
  • dreary,
  • fustian,
  • round,
  • prim,
  • dashing,
  • great,
  • Tumefacient,
  • fluent,
  • inflation,
  • laborious,
  • vain,
  • self-important,
  • high-sounding,
  • elegant,
  • glittering,
  • Altiloquent,
  • vapid,
  • unreadable,
  • projecting,
  • extravagant,
  • overflowing,
  • affected,
  • turgidity,
  • pouched,
  • uninteresting,
  • swelling,
  • Beautified,
  • gaudy,
  • blowzy,
  • deadly,
  • Extruding,
  • halting,
  • sonorous,
  • abscess,
  • bellied,
  • Euphuistic,
  • effusive,
  • conceited,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • florid,
  • prominence,
  • rude,
  • pompous,
  • uncouth,
  • macroscopic,
  • excrescent,
  • hypertrophied,
  • arrogant,
  • dry,
  • bloated,
  • voluble,
  • puffed-up,
  • puffed out,
  • boil,
  • puffing,
  • pretentious,
  • fat,
  • conversational,
  • jejune,
  • projection,
  • long-winded,
  • popeyed,
  • aureate,
  • big,
  • stuffy,
  • protuberance,
  • grotesque,
  • filled to overflowing,
  • erect,
  • Janty,
  • garrulous,
  • circuitous,
  • blah,
  • rhipidate,
  • tedious,
  • tiresome,
  • grandiose,
  • lump,
  • highfalutin,
  • glib,
  • Oedematous.

Antonyms for Turgid:

• adj.

  • swollen
    plain, modest, self-effacing, humble, quiet, simple, reserved.
  • Other antonyms:
    collapsed, unrhetorical, deflated, healthy.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    amusing, collapsed, deflated, humble, modest, plain, quiet, reserved, self-effacing, simple, detumescent.