Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Swollen; distended. Used of a body part or organ.
- adj. Of a bulging shape; protuberant.
- adj. Overblown; bombastic: tumid political prose.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Swollen; slightly inflated; tumefied: as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh.
- Protuberant; rising above the level.
- Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; bombastic; inflated: as, a tumid expression; a tumid style.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Swelled, enlarged, or distended
- adj. Rising above the level; protuberant.
- adj. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
- adj. ostentatiously lofty in style
- adj. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
Etymologies
- Latin tumidus, from tumēre, to swell; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“= veil = is thick, and the annulus narrow and very thick or "tumid," easily breaking up and disappearing.”
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
“The outermost part is a tough scab-like purple scale, but within is a tumid floret of a highly complex design.”
“The buttons of her blouse tug around her tumid breasts.”
“It would be so easy to write the article off as the ramblings of a gynophobic choad, but loath as I am to admit it, there is a faint miasma of truth hovering in that tumid swamp.”
Frankie Thomas: Enter the Contest to Make Christopher Hitchens Laugh!
“In a labial dawn I savoured salty draughts of liquor springing from your tumid lips, luxuriated in a magnanimity your primal crouch expressed, heard half-suppressed love-cries tell the tumult in your loins.”
“Times readers who got through the tumid chunk he offered were reminded that dust has its purposes.”
“The whorls are posteriorly gibbose or tumid at the sutures, and the callus is less spreading than in others of the genus.”
“The thing jumped into my mind and stopped its tumid flow for a moment.”
“On his left shin there were two bruises, one a leaden yellow graduating here and there into purple, and another, obviously of more recent date, of a blotchy red — tumid and threatening.”
“I forever hate all things vain and tumid, and do my best to discard them.”
Lists
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chained_bear "Now there was the easy motion of the boat, the creak of thole-pins, the sea-air on his stiff, tumid, sightless face; and now among the perceptions that failed him were those of pain and of time..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 371 Mar 8, 2008