| Tumid 1. (a.) Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. 2. (a.) Rising above the level; protuberant. 3. (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style. Thesaurus Entries aureate, bellied, bloated, blown up, bombastic, bug-eyed, bulged, dilated, distended, dropsical, edematous, enchymatous, euphuistic, exophthalmic, expanded, fat, flatulent, flowery, formal, fustian, gassy, goggle, goggled, grandiloquent, incrassate, inflated, magniloquent, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, pontifical, popeyed, pouched, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important, solemn, stilted, stuffy, swelled, swelling, swollen, tumescent, tumorous, turgescent, turgid, ventose, ventricose, windy |