tumid meaning and definition

TUMID adjective

Definition of tumid (adjective)

1. ostentatiously lofty in style
   • "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
   • synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid
2. 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"
   • synonyms: intumescent, puffy, tumescent, turgid
3. of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
   • synonyms: erect