Turgid

Turgid Definition

Pompously elaborate, inflated, or difficult to understand, especially in writing or speech.

Common in literary criticism and formal commentary, but uncommon in everyday speech.

Turgid is an adjective.

Turgid has high GRE relevance.

Turgid appears in GregMat vocabulary.

Turgid Synonyms

bombastic , grandiloquent , inflated , overwrought , verbose

How To Use Turgid In A Sentence

1. The essay's turgid prose obscured what was otherwise a straightforward argument.
2. Critics dismissed the novel as turgid and self-important.
3. His turgid speech was filled with elaborate phrases but few concrete proposals.