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turgid
adjectives
ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
bombastic,
declamatory,
large,
orotund,
tumid,
turgid
is derived from
turgidness
is derived from
turgidity
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"
intumescent,
puffy,
tumescent,
tumid,
turgid
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