Synonyms for turgid

Adjective

1. bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid, rhetorical (vs. unrhetorical)

usage: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

2. bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid, unhealthy (vs. healthy)

usage: 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"