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Definitions for tumid
ˈtu mɪd, ˈtyu-tu·mid

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgidadjective

    ostentatiously lofty in style

    "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

  2. puffy, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgidadjective

    abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

    "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

  3. tumid, erectadjective

    of sexual organs; stiff and rigid

Wiktionary

  1. tumidadjective

    swollen, enlarged, bulging

  2. tumidadjective

    cancerous, unhealthy

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Tumidadjective

    Etymology: tumidus, Lat.

    So high as heav’d the tumid hills, so low
    Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep,
    Capacious bed of waters. John Milton.

    Though such expressions may seem tumid and aspiring; yet cannot I scruple to use seeming hyperboles in mentioning felicities, which make the highest hyperboles but seeming ones. Boyle.

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  1. tumid

    Tumid refers to something that is swollen or distended, often due to disease, inflammation, or injury. It can also describe language or expressions that are excessively embellished or pompous.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Tumidadjective

    swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh

  2. Tumidadjective

    rising above the level; protuberant

  3. Tumidadjective

    swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Tumid

    tū′mid, adj. swollen or enlarged: inflated: falsely sublime: bombastic.—n. Tumes′cence.—adj. Tumes′cent.—n. Tumid′ity.—adv. Tū′midly.—n. Tū′midness. [L. tumidustumēre, to swell.]

Entomology

  1. Tumid

    swollen; enlarged; puffed up.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tumid in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of tumid in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4


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