Turgid

//ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

    "I have a turgid limb."

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

    "These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy."

Adjective
  1. 1
    abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas wordnet
  2. 2
    ostentatiously lofty in style wordnet

Etymology

From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).

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