tumid
/ˈtjuːmɪd
/adjective
1(Especially of a part of the body) swollen: a tumid belly...
- What was he doing easing my friend up across his tumid belly and onto his lap?
- The rights to a future project currently sit in the directors tumid billfold.
- It has a tumid rounded shape.
2(Especially of language or literary style) pompous or bombastic: tumid oratory
Derivatives
tumidity
- The diction has in places a huge and rugged grandeur, which degenerates here and there into tumidity.
- There is often slight guarding and generalised tumidity of the abdomen similar to the ‘doughiness’ of tuberculous peritonitis.
- The orchestra added little apart from a certain unwelcome tumidity to music that would have been more at home as a Hollywood soundtrack.
tumidly
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Latin tumidus, from tumere 'to swell'.