Turgid Definition

tûrjĭd
adjective
Excessively ornate or complex in style or language; grandiloquent.
Turgid prose.
American Heritage
Swollen; distended.
Webster's New World
So bombastic and congested as to obscure meaning.
A turgid writing style.
Webster's New World

(of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

Wiktionary

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

I have a turgid limb.
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Origin of Turgid

  • From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated"), from Latin turgeō (“to swell").

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin turgidus from turgēre to be swollen

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Turgid Sentence Examples

  • Cut plants are allowed to wilt, or become flaccid, before removal from the field, to prevent injury to the turgid leaves.

  • It is needed for photosynthesis and keeping the cells turgid.

  • In addition to its usefulness in maintaining a turgid state of the young cells without which growth cannot proceed, water is itself a plant food-material and as absorbed from the soil contains dissolved in it all the mineral food constituents needed by plants for healthy nutrition.

  • When I skim-read his somewhat turgid and self-centred biography of his father I thought that the old legal eagle must have been pretty unpleasant.

  • Clement professed to despite rhetoric, but was himself a rhetorician, and his style is turgid, involved and difficult.

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Words Starting With

TTUTUR

Words Ending With

DIDGID

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Words Starting With T and Ending With D

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With T6 Letter Words Ending With D