turgid
adjEtymology
Etymology tree Latin turgeō Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-iðos Latin -idus Latin turgidusbor. English turgid From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).
- borrowed from turgidus
Definitions
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive…
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
- I have a turgid limb.
Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood
Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
- The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains.
Overly complex and difficult to understand
Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
- Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]
- Published TV-scholarship sure reflects this mood. And the numbingly dull quality to most “literary” television analyses is due less to the turgid abstraction scholars employ to make television seem an OK object of aesthetic inquiry […]
The neighborhood
- neighborturgescence
- neighborturgescent
- neighborturgidity
- neighborturgidness
- neighborturgor
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at turgid. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at turgid. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at turgid
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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