tumid
- adjective
- /ˈtjuːmɪd/
- Literature
:
pomposo
- Critics mocked the author's tumid prose as overly elaborate and grandiloquent.
Examples
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The politician's tumid speech failed to impress the skeptical audience.
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His speech was so tumid that few could follow his argument.
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Her tumid language made the simple idea seem unnecessarily complicated.
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The professor's tumid writing style alienated many of his students.
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Critics mocked the author's tumid prose as overly elaborate and grandiloquent.
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Her tumid language made the simple idea seem unnecessarily complicated.
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The politician's tumid speech failed to engage the audience effectively.
Synonyms
12
8.5
Using big, showy words that have little real meaning
3
8.9
Language that uses long, fancy words to seem important but is hard to read
1
8.3
Speaking loudly and in a dramatic way to try to impress people
To use very big, showy words to sound important
Speech or writing that uses very grand, showy language
Antonyms
How Inflated
- Literature
1
9.9
12
8.5
- Formal
3
8.9
- Literature
- Literature
26
7.0
264
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
tumid = tum + id
Although the sense is metaphorically related to 'swollen' (inflated style), the morphological parts are not transparent to typical learners, so the meaning cannot be derived from the components.
Etymology
Tumid comes from the Latin tumidus, from tumēre 'to swell', and you can imagine speech or writing as being 'swollen' with words. So tumid can mean language that is too showy or 'inflated' with big words.