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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | billowy, bloated, blown, bulgy, distended, distent, enlarged, expanded, full, increased, inflamed, inflated, puffed up |
| Antonyms: | flat, tight, unswollen |
| Main Entry: | distended |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, enlarged, expanded, inflated, puffed out, puffy, stretched, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
| Main Entry: | highfalutin |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
| Synonyms: | arrogant, boastful, conceited, flaunting, grandiose, high and mighty, important, lofty, ostentatious, overbearing, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, self-centered, stuck-up, swanky, uppity, vain |
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | stuffy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, prim |
| Synonyms: | Victorian, arrogant, bloated, conventional, dreary, dull, fusty, genteel, humorless, important, magisterial, musty, narrow-minded, pompous, priggish, prim and proper, prissy, prudish, puffy, puritanical, self-important, staid, stilted, stodgy, straitlaced, uninteresting |
| Antonyms: | current, informal, modern, new |
| Main Entry: | swollen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | enlarged |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulgy, distended, distent, inflamed, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumescent, tumid |
| Antonyms: | compressed, contracted, shrunken |
| Main Entry: | tumescent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, bulging, bulgy, bursting, distended, distent, enlarged, expanding, inflated, puffed, puffy, tumid |
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bombastic |
| Synonyms: | bloated, distended, enlarged, grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, ornate, pompous, pretentious, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid |
| Notes: | turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical bodies |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple |
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | swollen |
| Synonyms: | bloated, distended, inflated, puffy, tumescent, tumid |
| Notes: | turbid means 'unclear or murky' as in liquids; turgid means 'swollen or distended,' especially in relation to physical bodies |
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