tumid

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/ˈtjuːmɪd//ˈtuːmɪd/

adjective

Swollen, enlarged, bulging.

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distendedextuberantturgidbolnbulgingbulledfarcednodose
OriginLatin tumidus ← Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- →
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Meanings

adjectivetumid (comparative more tumid, superlative most tumid)

comparative more tumid · superlative most tumid

  1. Swollen, enlarged, bulging.

    Synonyms: distended, extuberant, turgid, boln, bulging, bulled, distended, extuberant

  2. Cancerous, unhealthy.

    Synonyms: sick, unwell, ailing, bad, crank, crook, green about the gills, icky

  3. Pompous, bombastic.

    Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.

    1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19

    Synonyms: grandiloquent, magniloquent, turgid

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveSwollen, enlarged, bulging.

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distendedextuberantturgidbolnbulgingbulleddistendedextuberantfarcednodosepuffedprotuberantswollenturgid

adjectiveCancerous, unhealthy.

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sickunwellailingbadcrankcrookgreen about the gillsickyillindisposedinfirmlike death warmed overlousymaladivemawkishoff one's feedon the Pat and Mickout of sortsPat and Mickpoorly

adjectivePompous, bombastic.

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grandiloquentmagniloquentturgid

More synonyms by meaning

adjectiveostentatiously lofty in style

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bombasticdeclamatorylargeorotundturgidrhetorical

adjectiveabnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

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puffyintumescenttumescentturgiddistendedbloatedswollenunhealthy

adjectiveof sexual organs; stiff and rigid

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erecthard
Also see
bloatedblownbolnbombasticbulleddeclamatorydistendederectextuberantfarcedhardillinflatedintumescentlargemagniloquentorotundprotuberantpuffedpuffyswollentumescentturgescentturgid

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*tum-
  2. Latintumeō
  3. Proto-Indo-European*dʰeh₁-
  4. Latintumidus
  5. Englishtumid

Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with tumid

humid
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Anagrams

Mudit
Cite this entry
APA

tumid. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tumid

MLA

“tumid.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tumid. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tumid,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tumid.

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