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tumid

adjective

Reveal meaning and examples

Swollen; in writing, excessively inflated or pompous.

The reviewer found the novel's tumid prose exhausting.

Dictionary practice example.

An early draft's tumid praise of the committee as the glorious guardian of all future journeys made a modest request sound absurdly grand.