Dictionary

turgid en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈtɛːd͡ʒɪd/ Humberside, Teesside, fair–fur merger
• /ˈtɜːd͡ʒɪd/ (Australia, Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈtøːd͡ʒəd/ (New-Zealand)
• /ˈtɚ.d͡ʒɪd/ (General-American)
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• /ˈtəːd͡ʒɪd/ (British, Southern, Standard)
• /ˈteːd͡ʒɪd/ Liverpool, fair–fur merger
• /ˈtʌɾd͡ʒɪd/ (Scotland)
• /ˈtøːd͡ʒɪd/ (Wales)
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin turgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turgidusbor. English turgid From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).

Meanings

1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
   • I have a turgid limb.
   • 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. 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 5, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
2. Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
   • The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains. 2005, Christopher Paolini, “The Burning Plains”, in Eldest, page 581:
3. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
   • 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 […] 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:
   • 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. 1976, William Zinsser, On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition, Kindle edition, Harper Perennial, published 2012, →ISBN, page 172:
   • Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…] 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 1077:

Forms

Deriveds

unturgid · turgidly · subturgid

Relateds

turgor · turgescence · turgidness · turgidity · turgescent

Synonyms

swollen · boln · bulging · puffed · grandiose · farced · bombastic · tumid · swollen · bloated · turgid · turgescent · swelled · extuberant · tumid · pompous · bulled · nodose · tumescent · distended · distended · inflated · protuberant

Translations (47)

ru опу́хший (distended beyond natural state) · cs nabubřelý (pompous or bombastic) · de schwülstig (pompous or bombastic) · es turgente (distended beyond natural state) · cs oteklý (distended beyond natural state) · fi suureellinen (pompous or bombastic) · fr turgide (distended beyond natural state) · tr kabarık (distended beyond natural state) · bg подпухнал (distended beyond natural state) · cs nadutý (pompous or bombastic) · ga borrtha (distended beyond natural state) · pt empolado (pompous or bombastic) · sv svulstig (distended beyond natural state) · ru помпе́зный (pompous or bombastic) · la turgidus (distended beyond natural state) · bg надут (pompous or bombastic) · cs zduřelý (distended beyond natural state) · no svulstig (pompous or bombastic) · bg подут (distended beyond natural state) · ka მაღალფარდოვანი (pompous or bombastic) · nl wollig (pompous or bombastic) · tr şişik (distended beyond natural state) · cs napuchlý (distended beyond natural state) · it turgido (distended beyond natural state) · pt túrgido (distended beyond natural state) · no svulstig (distended beyond natural state) · nl gezwollen (pompous or bombastic) · de aufgeblasen (pompous or bombastic) · nl opgezwollen (distended beyond natural state) · tr şişmiş (distended beyond natural state) · no pompøs (pompous or bombastic) · de geschwollen (distended beyond natural state) · nl gezwollen (distended beyond natural state) · la turgidus (pompous or bombastic) · gl turxescente (distended beyond natural state) · ka პომპეზური (pompous or bombastic) · fi mahtipontinen (pompous or bombastic) · de angeschwollen (distended beyond natural state) · cs bombastický (pompous or bombastic) · de geschwollen (pompous or bombastic) · es túrgido (distended beyond natural state) · ka გაბერილი (distended beyond natural state) · fi turvonnut (distended beyond natural state) · sv uppsvullen (distended beyond natural state) · bg високопарен (pompous or bombastic) · ru напы́щенный (pompous or bombastic) · de aufgeblasen (distended beyond natural state)