Definition of tumid Tumid
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We found 10 definitions of tumid from 5 different sources.
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What does tumid mean?
WordNet
Adjectivetumid, tumidder, tumiddest |
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| tumid - of sexual organs; stiff and rigid | ||
| erect | ||
| hard dried out; "hard dry rolls left over from the day before" | ||
| physiology processes and functions of an organism | ||
| tumid - 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" | ||
| puffy, intumescent, tumescent, turgid | ||
| unhealthy not conducive to good health; "an unhealthy diet of fast foods"; "an unhealthy climate" | ||
| tumid - ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" | ||
| bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid | ||
| rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- tumid (a.)
Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. - tumid (a.)
Rising above the level; protuberant. - tumid (a.)
Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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tumid
tū′mid, adj. swollen or enlarged: inflated: falsely sublime: bombastic.—n. Tumes′cence.—adj. Tumes′cent.—n. Tumid′ity.—adv. Tū′midly.—n. Tū′midness. [L. tumidus—tumēre, to swell.]
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