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 ("swollen"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin tumidus, from tumēre, to swell. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tumid’.
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phrontistery-t
from phrontistery.info
tyromancy, tyroma, tyroid, tyriasis, tyrannicide, typtology, typothetae, typomania, typography, typographia, typhonic, typhomania and 930 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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words 1
Traduce, Ramify, precipitous, rapture, adumbrate, knell, smolder, vagary, choleric, sibylline, hypocritical, jejune and 135 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Fetishes, Erotica & Descriptive Smut
Sexually charged words, or those that could be. Sexual innuendos are mighty welcome.
lubricious, turgid, tumescent, tumid, feverish, mons, mons veneris, prurient, ophidian, houri, cyprian, licentious and 42 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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GRE list #4
runic, sagacious, salacious, salient, salutary, sanctimony, sanguine, satiate, saturnine, seine, seminal, sidereal and 103 more...
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i like
words to use, memorize, lavish with my affections
empyreal, quiddity, esthetic, crepitation, dénouement, feuilleton, macule, napthalene, förutse, verdure, montane, decalcomania and 105 more...
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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Learned
ambergris, andiron, aphelion, austral, bellicose, boreal, bravura, chaff, chicanery, creditable, credulous, decamp and 223 more...
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Nabokov vocabulary
verisimilitude, geminate, pedantic, intervestibular, equilibrist, nictitating, anastomosis, quiddity, torus, cacahuete, undulation, pensum and 135 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
tulle, argand, friable, corolla, lives of stir, difficile, rime, inveigh, feuilleton, peristyle, refulgence, wainscoting and 98 more...
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Let's talk about sex
A collection of words about doing the nasty.
prurient, odalisque, soubrette, gravid, lochia, xenogamy, syngamy, zygote, pintle, hexaploid, seminal, hetaera and 232 more...
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Words with Method to their Madness
Patterned words! Any word that alternates vowels and consonants with no consonants next to each other, and no vowels next to each other. (And a letter limit of no less than 5)
eleven, every, vowel, lemon, alibi, hopes, limit, cures, caravan, emirate, united arab emirates, honorificabilitud... and 114 more...
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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