SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
tumid
adjective
Swollen; in writing, excessively inflated or pompous.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Swollen
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Usage distinction
Return to topTumid is a formal or technical description of swelling. Enlarged simply means larger and does not necessarily indicate swelling.
Inflated in style
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Usage distinction
Return to topTumid writing is criticized as verbally swollen. Declamatory describes a forceful rhetorical style that need not always be inflated.
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See tumid in use
The reviewer found the novel's tumid prose exhausting.
An early draft's tumid praise of the committee as the glorious guardian of all future journeys made a modest request sound absurdly grand.
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