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Antonyms for tumid

Grammar : Adj
Spell : too-mid, tyoo-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtu mɪd, ˈtyu-

Definition of tumid

Origin :
  • "morbidly swollen," 1540s, from Latin tumidus, from tumere "to swell" (see thigh). Figurative sense (in reference to prose, etc.) is attested from 1640s.
  • adj bloated
Example sentences :
  • The tumid nothingness of pure transcendentalism he has always abhorred.
  • Extract from : « Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I » by John Morley
  • With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
  • Extract from : « Pearls of Thought » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • The listener's face was tumid and discoloured, his eyes bloodshot.
  • Extract from : « The Whirlpool » by George Gissing
  • A low-spired, globular shell with a large, tumid, smooth body-whorl.
  • Extract from : « The Sea-beach at Ebb-tide » by Augusta Foote Arnold
  • And of some tumid metaphors he says, "All too forced and over-charged."
  • Extract from : « Notes & Queries, No. 25. Saturday, April 20, 1850 » by Various
  • The poetry is not of that tumid nature which Pindar uses, but of the graceful simplicity of Homer's verse.
  • Extract from : « The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 » by Various
  • In another place in the same lives his tumid and prolix eloquence disembogues itself to prove, what no man ever doubted, viz.
  • Extract from : « Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works » by Anonymous
  • A tumid abdomen, rapid emaciation, and anmia are far more valuable signs of the disease of these glands.
  • Extract from : « A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II » by Various
  • Note the tumid convex clypeus which composes most of the anterior aspect of the head.
  • Extract from : « Elementary Zoology, Second Edition » by Vernon L. Kellogg
  • There are some pleasing passages in Arnobius, but on the whole he is a tumid and a tedious author.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 » by Various

Synonyms for tumid

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