tumid

1. 1.

   ostentatiously lofty in style

   “a man given to large talk”

   “tumid political prose”

   Synonymsbombasticdeclamatorylargeorotundturgid

   Similarrhetorical
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymspuffyintumescenttumescentturgid

   Similarunhealthy
3. 3.

   of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

   Synonymserect

   Similarhard

   physiology

Other forms of tumid

comparative

tumidder·

superlative

tumiddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tumid

What does tumid mean?

tumid means "ostentatiously lofty in style". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tumid?

tumid has 2 syllables: tu-mid. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for tumid?

Close synonyms include bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tumid a common word?

tumid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.