turgid

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈtɜːd͡ʒɪd/|/ˈtəːd͡ʒɪd/    美 /ˈtɜːd͡ʒɪd/|/ˈtɚ.d͡ʒɪd/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
    — I have a turgid limb.
  2. Of a river, inundated with excess water as from a flood; swollen.
    — The Jiet River lay before them, as thick and turgid as a gorged snake, its crosshatched surface reflecting the same ghastly hue that pervaded the Burning Plains.
  3. Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
    — These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.

词形变化

more turgid comparative most turgid superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
subturgid turgidly unturgid
相关词
turgescence turgescent turgidity turgidness turgor

词源

Etymology tree
Latin turgeō
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.
Proto-Italic *-iðos
Latin -idus
Latin turgidusbor.
English turgid
From Latin turgidus (“swollen, inflated”), from turgeō (“to swell”).
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