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  • 21turgid —   a. swollen; inflated; bombastic.    ♦ turgescent, a. becoming turgid.    ♦ turgidity, n.    ♦ turgor, n. normal rigid state of a cell; turgidity …

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  • 22bombastic — adjective /bɒmˈbæs.tɪk,bɑmˈbæs.tʰɪk/ a) Pompous or overly wordy. b) High sounding but with little meaning. Syn: blustering, grandiloquent, pompous, verbose, florid, inflated …

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  • 23bombastic — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, aureate, awkward, big, bloated, cramped, cumbrous, declamatory, elephantine, euphuistic, extravagant, flatulent, flowery, forced, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent, grandiose, guinde, halting, heavy, high …

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  • 24turgid — Synonyms and related words: Latinate, aureate, awkward, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug eyed, bulged, cramped, cumbrous, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, elephantine, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, fat, flatulent,… …

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  • 25turgid — tur·gid || tÉœrdʒɪd / tɜː adj. swollen; pompous, bombastic …

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  • 26turgid — [ tə:dʒɪd] adjective 1》 swollen and distended or congested. 2》 (of language or style) tediously pompous or bombastic. Derivatives turgidity noun turgidly adverb Origin C17: from L. turgidus, from turgere to swell …

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  • 27bombastic — a. Inflated, turgid, tumid, swelling, stilted, grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent, sesquipedalian, pompous, sophomorical, high flown, high sounding …

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  • 28turgid — a. 1. Swelled, swollen, bloated, distended, puffed up. 2. Pompous, bombastic, tumid, puffy, inflated, stilted, grandiloquent, declamatory, rhetorical, ostentatious, turgent, grandiose, fustian, high flown …

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  • 29bombastic — adj 1. pompous, orotund, fustian, haughty, pretentious, ostentatious, flaunting, bom bastical; grandiose, magniloquent, grandiloquent, Johnsonian, Ossianic, sonorous, sesquipedalian; high sounding, high flown, lofty, Inf. highfalutin, Inf. high… …

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  • 30bombastic — /bɒmˈbæstɪk/ (say bom bastik) adjective (of speech, etc.) high sounding; high flown; inflated; turgid. Also, bombastical. –bombastically, adverb …