Turgid is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TURGID in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• swollen, inflated, also TURGENT
• swollen and distended or congested
• (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic
• (of language) pompous
• Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
• Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
• ostentatiously lofty in style
• abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

Words related to TURGID

turgent8 turgider10 turgidest11 turgidity14 turgidly13

Words that contain TURGID

turgider10 turgidly13 turgidest11 turgidity14 turgidness12 turgidities13 turgidnesses14

How to use TURGID in a sentence

• Kurt fell back in his chair and stared at the turgid, bulging forehead and hard eyes before him.
• He mentions first a turgid epic poet for whom he has no regard.
• The great becomes turgid in his hands, the pathetic insipid.
• Through the lighter goblin veil I felt myself sinking down, down, down into this turgid layer that was so much more violent and so much more ancient.
• His turgid oratory was admired in the backwoods, and he was much helped by his skill in the baser kinds of political management.
• It sometimes rose in a turgid flood, but more often it sank and delivered up its ghost to such an extent that a man could have held it in his hat.
• But into the turgid down-sweep he headed with a newly conjured vigor.
• The judge, his opponent, was a rather turgid man whose speech had abounded in flights of denunciation and whose appeal had been made frankly to prejudice and party rancor.
• Ignorance that is content with itself is turgid and saturated.
• And in that instant, before the turgid black curtain closed over them, I saw two brigands come rushing.
• And from above, in spite of the turgid quality of the liquid, they could see what did rest on the bottom of that oval.
• Some hundred odd souls were gathered there, where the stern-wheel steamers that ply the turgid Skeena reach the head of navigation.
• His turgid odes, stuffed with classical allusions, in praise of Anne and Elizabeth, are still committed to memory by pupils at educational establishments.
• One was caught in the turgid whirlpool which was the sporting element of the town, and would not leave it.
• The style is turgid, overloaded, and at times silly.
• His manner, nevertheless, chilled Genet and came upon him like a cold bath after the warm atmosphere of popular plaudits and turgid addresses.
• Oaths flowed from Captain Magnus in a turgid stream.
• The sombre splendor of romance is throughout, with just a touch of turgid.
• Her turgid opinions would have more merit in such a look.
• Sodden as the mustard MF put on his eggs, or the streams rolling across her sidewalk, the turgid sediment brought turgid sentiments of desperation in her mind.
• We shall pronounce the relation affected, and the expression of it turgid, even nauseous.
• They did not scruple to pronounce him turgid, copious to a fault, often redundant, and too fond of repetition.
• The men in that turgid atmosphere felt languid and inert, and their hands rested but lightly on oar and paddle.
• Then came an epidemic of Carlyle, and everyone wrote turgid, involved, twisted and breakneck sentences, each noun with as many verbs as Brigham Young had wives.

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