adjective
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(of an organ or part) enlarged or swollen
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bulging or protuberant
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pompous or fulsome in style
tumid prose
Other Word Forms
- tumidity noun
- tumidly adverb
- tumidness noun
- untumid adjective
- untumidity noun
- untumidly adverb
- untumidness noun
Etymology
Origin of tumid
1535–45; < Latin tumidus swollen, equivalent to tum ( ēre ) to swell + -idus -id 4
Example Sentences
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“I found her unfamiliar, rouged like a corpse, her tumid ankles peeking out, inflated and purple,” Rowbottom writes.
From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2018
The average mall moviegoer might be baffled or sedated by his films’ tumid, dreamlike melancholy.
From Time • Apr. 3, 2015
Written in that vein, Love and Death in the American Novel is a tumid, quasi-psychoanalytic study in which Critic Fiedler tries to strip American literature down to a heavily annotated fig leaf.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rigid edges of her wedding ring sliced into her tumid finger.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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