adjective
- Ostentatiously lofty in style.
- usage: "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
- synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid
- Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.
- usage: "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"
- synonyms: puffy, intumescent, tumescent, turgid
- Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid.
- synonyms: erect
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