tumidity
71rhetoric — n 1. eloquence, power of speech, appeal, forcefulness, expressiveness, cogency; elocution, diction, articulation, enunciation, intonation, vocalization, address, delivery; command of words, way with words, Inf. gift of gab, Archaic. facundity;… …
72rodomontade — n 1. boasting, bluster, bragging, fanfaronade, gasconade, Sl. hot air, Sl. bunk; self approbation, self praise, vainglory, vainglorious boasting; bravado, braggadocio, bombast, grandiosity, magniloquence, grandiloquence; extravagance,… …
73turgidity — n 1. swelling, bloatedness, puffiness, turgescence, tumidity, intumescence, tumefaction, ballooning; distention, expansion, extension, enlargement; dilation, dilatation, inflation, Pathol. aneurysm, Pathol. varix. 2. bombast, grandiosity,… …
74verbosity — n 1. wordiness, verbality, verbalism, verbiage, prolixity, prolixness, loquacity, loquaciousness, long windedness, longiloquence, multiloquence; overtalkativeness, talkativeness, glibness, loose tongue, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. gift of gab, Inf.… …
75tumid — /ˈtjuməd / (say tyoohmuhd) adjective 1. swollen, or affected with swelling, as a part of the body. 2. pompous, turgid, or bombastic, as language, literary style, etc. {Latin tumidus swollen} –tumidity /tjuˈmɪdəti/ (say tyooh miduhtee) –tumidness …
76fatness — [n] overweight adiposity, breadth, bulkiness, corpulence, distension, flab*, flesh, fleshiness, girth, grossness, heaviness, heftiness, inflation, largeness, obesity, plumpness, portliness, protuberance, pudginess, rotundity, size, stoutness,… …
77tumid — a. swollen; bombastic. ♦ tumidity, n. ♦ tumefacient, a. producing swelling. ♦ tumefy, v.t. swell. ♦ tumescent, a. somewhat tumid …
78tumid — [to͞o′mid, tyo͞o′mid] adj. [L tumidus < tumere, to swell: see TUMOR] 1. swollen; bulging 2. inflated or pompous tumidity n. tumidness tumidly adv …
79intumescent — adjective 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 • Syn: ↑ …
80puffiness — noun 1. lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity • Syn: ↑ostentation, ↑ostentatiousness, ↑pomposity, ↑pompousness, ↑pretentiousness, ↑splashiness, ↑inflation …
