turgent

English

Etymology

Latin turgens, turgentis, present participle of turgere (“to swell”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt

Adjective

turgent (comparative more turgent, superlative most turgent)

1. Rising into a tumour or a puffy state; tumid.
2. Bombastic; turgid; pompous.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     recompensed with turgent titles

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “turgent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

turgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of turgeō