tumid
/ˈtjuːmɪd/
tumid adjective: swollen, enlarged, bulging.
Adjective
tumid (comparative more tumid, superlative most tumid)
- Swollen, enlarged, bulging.
- Synonyms:
- distended, extuberant, turgid, boln, bulging, bulled, farced, nodose, puffed, protuberant
- Cancerous, unhealthy.
- Synonyms:
- sick, unwell, ailing, bad, crank, crook, green about the gills, icky, ill, indisposed
- Pompous, bombastic.
- Tumid blustering, with more or less of sincerity, which need not be entirely sincere, yet the sincerer the better, is like to go far.1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter III, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book I (The Feast of Pikes), page 19
- Synonyms:
- grandiloquent, magniloquent, turgid
tumid meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
tumid in Urdu
- پھولا, سوجا
tumid in Malayalam
- distended, swollen, tumescent
- വീർത്ത, ചീർത്ത, സ്ഫാത, സ്ഫീത, വീങ്ങിയ, ആശുന
- pompous, bombastic, turgid
- ശബ്ദാഡംബര മുള്ള, ശബ്ദധോരണിയായ, ബ്രഹച്ഛബ്ദസ്ഫീതമായ, വലിയവാക്കു പ്രയോഗിച്ചുള്ള, വാചാടോപമുള്ള, ഘോഷമായ
Synonyms of tumid
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- sick
- unwell
- ailing
- bad
- crank
- crook
- green about the gills
- icky
- ill
- indisposed
- infirm
- like death warmed over
- lousy
- off one's feed
- on the Pat and Mick
- out of sorts
- Pat and Mick
- poorly
- punk
- puny
- ropy
- rough
- sickish
- sickly
- sick as a dog
- sick as a parrot
- under the weather
- unhealthy
- valetudinarian
- valetudinary
Forms of tumid
| comparative | more tumid |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tumid |
Origin of tumid
Borrowed from Latin tumidus (“swollen”).
Words formed from tumid
Words that rhyme with tumid
Questions about tumid
- What does tumid mean?
- Tumid means swollen, enlarged, bulging.
- What is tumid in Urdu?
- Tumid in Urdu is پھولا, سوجا. See Tumid meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is tumid?
- Tumid is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce tumid?
- Tumid is pronounced /ˈtjuːmɪd/.
Words near tumid in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumid (page history and authors); tumid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tumid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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