Ostentatiously lofty in style:
— Tumid political prose.

synonyms: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, turgid.

Roget 577: ornament etc. v.; beautified etc. 847; 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.    antithetical, alliterative; figurative etc. 521; artificial etc. (inelegant) 579.    ... show more

Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas:
— Puffy tumid flesh.

synonyms: intumescent, puffy, tumescent, turgid.

Roget 194: expanded, etc. v.; larger, etc. (large) etc. 192; 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 etc. (convex) 250; full blown, full grown, full formed; big etc. 192; abdominous^†, enchymatous^†, rhipidate^†; tumefacient^†, tumefying^†.    ... show more

Of sexual organs; stiff and rigid.

synonym: erect.