"turgid" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈtɚ.d͡ʒɪd/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-turgid.ogg Forms: more turgid [comparative], most turgid [superlative]
Etymology: From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|turgidus||swollen, inflated}} Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} turgid (comparative more turgid, superlative most turgid)
  1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. Synonyms: bloated, distended, inflated, swelled, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgescent Translations (distended beyond natural state): подут (podut) (Bulgarian), подпухнал (podpuhnal) (Bulgarian), gezwollen (Dutch), opgezwollen (Dutch), turvonnut (Finnish), turgide (French), turxescente (Galician), გაბერილი (gaberili) (Georgian), geschwollen (German), aufgeblasen (German), angeschwollen (German), borrtha (Irish), turgido (Italian), turgidus (Latin), svulstig (Norwegian), túrgido (Portuguese), опу́хший (opúxšij) (Russian), turgente (Spanish), túrgido [poetic] (Spanish), uppsvullen (Swedish), svulstig (Swedish), kabarık (Turkish), şişik (Turkish), şişmiş (Turkish)
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  2. Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
    Sense id: en-turgid-en-adj-UuL03z~0
  3. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic. Synonyms: bombastic, grandiose, pompous Translations (pompous or bombastic): надут (nadut) (Bulgarian), високопарен (visokoparen) (Bulgarian), gezwollen (Dutch), wollig (Dutch), mahtipontinen (Finnish), suureellinen (Finnish), მაღალფარდოვანი (maɣalpardovani) (Georgian), პომპეზური (ṗomṗezuri) (Georgian), geschwollen (German), aufgeblasen (German), schwülstig (German), turgidus (Latin), svulstig (Norwegian), pompøs (Norwegian), empolado (Portuguese), напы́щенный (napýščennyj) (Russian), помпе́зный (pompéznyj) (Russian), ampuloso (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-turgid-en-adj-bvFxTmPx Disambiguation of 'pompous or bombastic': 37 2 61
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: turgescence, turgescent, turgidity, turgidness, turgor
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          "ref": "2004, Harold McGee, chapter 5, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:",
          "text": "A vegetable that is fully moist and firm will seem both crisp and more tender than the same vegetable limp from water loss. When we bite down on a vegetable turgid with water, the already-stressed cell walls readily break and the cells burst open; in a limp vegetable, chewing compresses the walls together, and we have to exert much more pressure to break through them.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Distended",
          "distended"
        ],
        [
          "agent",
          "agent"
        ],
        [
          "fluid",
          "fluid"
        ],
        [
          "expansive",
          "expansive"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bloated"
        },
        {
          "word": "distended"
        },
        {
          "word": "inflated"
        },
        {
          "word": "swelled"
        },
        {
          "word": "swollen"
        },
        {
          "word": "tumescent"
        },
        {
          "word": "tumid"
        },
        {
          "word": "turgescent"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "inundate",
          "inundate"
        ],
        [
          "swollen",
          "swollen"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1976, William Zinsser, On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition, Kindle edition, Harper Perennial, published 2012, →ISBN, page 172:",
          "text": "These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 1077:",
          "text": "Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, David Foster Wallace, “E Unibus Pluram: television and U.S. fiction”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:",
          "text": "Published TV-scholarship sure reflects this mood. And the numbingly dull quality to most “literary” television analyses is due less to the turgid abstraction scholars employ to make television seem an OK object of aesthetic inquiry […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grandiloquent",
          "grandiloquent"
        ],
        [
          "bombastic",
          "bombastic"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic."
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of language or style"
      ],
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        {
          "word": "bombastic"
        },
        {
          "word": "grandiose"
        },
        {
          "word": "pompous"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈtɚ.d͡ʒɪd/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podut",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "подут"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "podpuhnal",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "подпухнал"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "gezwollen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "opgezwollen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "turvonnut"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "turgide"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "turxescente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "gaberili",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "გაბერილი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "geschwollen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "aufgeblasen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "angeschwollen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "borrtha"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "turgido"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "turgidus"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "svulstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "túrgido"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "opúxšij",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "опу́хший"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "turgente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "tags": [
        "poetic"
      ],
      "word": "túrgido"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "uppsvullen"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "svulstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "kabarık"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "şişik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "distended beyond natural state",
      "word": "şişmiş"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "nadut",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "надут"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "visokoparen",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "високопарен"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "gezwollen"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "wollig"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "mahtipontinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "suureellinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "maɣalpardovani",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "მაღალფარდოვანი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗomṗezuri",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "პომპეზური"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "geschwollen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "aufgeblasen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "schwülstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "turgidus"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "svulstig"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "pompøs"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "empolado"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "napýščennyj",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "напы́щенный"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pompéznyj",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "помпе́зный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pompous or bombastic",
      "word": "ampuloso"
    }
  ],
  "word": "turgid"
}

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