tumid Definition

tumid
adj

1. Said of an organ or body part: swollen, enlarged or bulging, especially abnormally so.

Thesaurus: swollen, bulging, tumescent, distended, bloated, enlarged, inflated.
2. Said of writing, speech, etc: bombastic; inflated.

Thesaurus: pompous, bombastic, egotistic, inflated, bloated.

Derivative: tumidity
noun

Derivative: tumidly
adverb

Etymology: 16c: from Latin tumidus, from tumere to swell.