Tumid

Definition: Tumid

Tumid

Adjective

1. Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose".

2. 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".

3. (physiology) of sexual organs; stiff and rigid.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tumid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1663. (references)

Etymology: Tumid \Tu"mid\, adjective. [Latin expression tumidus, from tumere to swell; compare to Sanskrit tumra strong, fat. Compare to Thumb.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Tumid

Expansion

Adjective: expanded; Verb: larger; (large; swollen; expansive; wide open, wide spread; flabelliform; overgrown, exaggerated, bloated, fat, turgid, tumid, hypertrophied, dropsical; pot bellied, swag bellied; edematous, oedematous, obese, puffy, pursy, blowzy, bigswoln, distended; patulous; bulbous; (convex); full blown, full grown, full formed; big; abdominous, enchymatous, rhipidate; tumefacient, tumefying.

Ornament

Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.

Crosswords: Tumid

Music

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "tumid": become tumid. Additional references.

Albanian

i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, orotund, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious), i ënjtur (dropsical, swollen, turgid). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ورم (bulge, bump, growth, lump, neoplasm, node, swell, swelling, tumefaction, tumor, tumour), ‏طنان (bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent, orotund, pompous, puffy, resonant, rotund, runic, sonorous, sounding, stilted, tall, turgid, windy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

отекъл (puffy, swollen), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, orotund, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, uppish, uppity), бомбастичен (high-flown, mandarin, mouth-filling, mouthy, pompous, puffy, sounding, spread eagle, turgid), подут (bloated, bulbous, gibbous, gummy, puffed up, puffy, swollen, turgid), издут (bagged, bladdery, bulging, convex, full, gibbous, gorged, prominent, protrusive, protuberant, swelling). (various references)

French

tuméfié, ampoulé (turgid). (various references)

German

geschwollen (billowed, bombastic, chesty, inflated, overblown, pompous, puffed, puffy, sententiously, swollen, thick, tumidly, turgid, turgidly). (various references)

Greek 

φουσκωμένοσ (flatulent, huffy, puffy). (various references)

Hebrew 

תפוח (apple, ball, heap, pile, puffed out, swollen), � פוח (distending, exaggeration, inflated, inflation, puffing, puffy, swollen). (various references)

Hungarian

daganat (bulge, bump, fester, knob, lump, new growth, swelling, tumefaction, tumor, tumour, ulcer). (various references)

Indonesian

bengkak (bloat, bubo, bulge, protuberant, swell, swollen, tumefaction, tumefy, tumescent, tumor). (various references)

Pig Latin

umidtay

Portuguese

túmido (turgid), saliente (beetle, beetling, goggle, outstanding, prominent, protruding, protuberant, salient), protuberante (goggle, protuberant, tumescent), pomposo (budge, consequential, formal, gallant, garish, grandiose, lofty, measured, orotund, ostentatious, pompous, puffed-up, showy, solemn, sounding, stately, stiff), intumescido, inchado (bloated, blown, blubber, distent, gummy, swollen, tumescent, turgid, up), empolado (bombastic, inflated, mouthy, oratorical, orotund, puffed-up, rhetoric, rhetorical, rotund, stilted, turgid), cheio (bursting, chock-full, complete, flush, fraught, full, overflowing, overgrown, philoprogenitive, plump, prolific, rank, replete, round, stuffed, teeming). (various references)

Romanian

umflat (baggy, bloated, blubber, bombastic, bulging, dropsical, flush, gummy, high-flown, inflated, long, puffy, swollen, turgid), pompos (emphatic, exaggerative, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-flown, high-sounding, important, large, magniloquent, pompous, state, stilted, swollen, theatrical). (various references)

Russian 

распухший. (various references)

Scottish

at (become tumid, becoming tumid, puff up, swell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

otekao (swollen, turgid), otečen (dropsical, swollen). (various references)

Spanish

araña roja (red spider, sugarcane mite, tumid spider mite). (various references)

Swedish

svulstig (bombastic, florid, grandiloquent, highfaluting, inflated, overblown, swollen, turgid, windy), svullen (puffy, swollen, tumescent, turgid). (various references)

Turkish

tumturaklı (bombastic, grandiloquent, highfaluting, high-flown, rhetorical, rotund, stilted), kabarık (bagging, balloon, bloated, bunchy, fluffy, hipped, puffy, raised, shaggy, swelling, swollen), şişmiş (bloated, blown, blown up, inflated, puffed, puffy, swelled, swollen, turgid), şişkin (bagging, bulging, fat, gross, puffed up, puffy, swollen, turgescent), şatafatlı (candied, de luxe, gaudy, high-flown, ornate, pompous, showy, sounding). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sưng lên (bloated, bullate). (various references)

Tetranychus tumidus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tumid": tumidities, tumidity, tumidly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tumid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ethmoid, Kumud, Numida, tanid, temi, timido, timitd, tmi, tomi, tomic, tomie, Tomii, Tomio, tommed, Toumi, trumeau, tufi, Tu'i, tu'ii, tumi, tummed, tummi, tumuit, tund, tundi, tuni, tunix, tupid, turid, turmid, turmoid, tuzi, umid. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: duit.

-2 letters: dim, dit, dui, mid, mud, mut, tui.

-3 letters: id, it, mi, mu, ti, um, ut.

+1 letter: dictum, dimout, midgut, tedium.

+2 letters: dictums, dimouts, imputed, midcult, midguts, minuted, mutined, stadium, tediums, triduum, tumidly.

+3 letters: diestrum, dismount, dumpiest, humidity, imbruted, impudent, midcults, misdoubt, mistuned, mucidity, muddiest, multifid, multiped, muriated, mutinied, rudiment, stadiums, summited, talmudic, triduums, tumefied, tumidity, unmitred.

+4 letters: admixture, amplitude, anthodium, ctenidium, dentalium, deuterium, diestrums, dismounts, drumliest, drumstick, fumigated, imprudent, judgmatic, magnitude, misadjust, misdoubts, misquoted, misrouted, missuited, mouldiest, multiband, multidrug, multifold, multigrid, multihued, multimode, multipeds, multitude, mundanity, mutilated, outmoding, outsmiled, rudiments, ruminated, simulated, smudgiest, submitted, talmudism, triumphed, turmoiled, ultimated, unlimited, unmerited, unmitered, untrimmed.