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say it: TUR-jid
turgid is an adjective meaning "ostentatiously lofty in style". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for turgid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.