Definitions for turgid

turgid tur·gid

Spelling: [tur-jid]
IPA: /ˈtɜr dʒɪd/

Turgid is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 81 anagrams from letters in turgid (dgirtu).

Definitions for turgid

adjective

  1. swollen; distended; tumid.
  2. inflated, overblown, or pompous; bombastic:

Origin of turgid

1660-70; Latin turgidus, equivalent to turg(ēre) to swell + -idus -id4

Examples for turgid

I held her as though all life's turgid danger were powerless to touch us.

If I have to confess the truth to you, that valley is to me a ghastly and turgid memory.

This may be airy, light, and gossamer, or turgid and obscure: it may be commonplace or ponderous.

With a sweep of his arm the man indicated the surface of the turgid flood.

In what turgid melodrama does not just such an episode occur?

Smith faxed a turgid apologia over to Bullock on Sunday, a mere three weeks after her relationship with James came to light.

Here it flowed a sluggish, turgid stream, so sullen, so heavy.

But his addresses are turgid, labouring, and not effective for their purpose.

Most of it is turgid, lumpy, fuzzy in texture, squalid in intellect.

Why not go for the polar opposite of a turgid straight white guy?

Word Value for turgid
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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