Clues for the word "TURGID"
We've had 18 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 29 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on February 20, 2025.
Definition of turgid
- a. - Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb; turgid fruit.
- a. - Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking.
Referring Clues
- Bombastic
- Swollen
- Grandiloquent
- Overly ornate writing
- Distended
- Overblown
- Plough furrow backwards, becoming swollen
- Congested
- Swollen - pompous
- Pompous bore with dull routine sent up
- Pompously inflated
- Plough furrow up - it's not very exciting
- Swollen - tediously pompous
- Plough small ditch up - it's full of water
- Swollen; bombastic
- Bloated
- Windy US soldier dropping trousers
- Congested excavation channel turned over
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - February 20, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 10, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - July 24, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 20, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - February 24, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - July 29, 2022
- Mirror Classic - October 06, 2017
- Evening Standard Quick - March 03, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - February 17, 2016
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 22, 2015
- Guardian Speedy - November 03, 2013
- LA Times - May 19, 2013
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - December 02, 2012
- New York Times - September 29, 2012
- USA Today - December 27, 2010
- Universal - November 25, 2010
- Netword - October 10, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - August 30, 2010
- Guardian Quick - August 16, 2010
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 29, 2009
- Family Time - September 07, 2009
- Guardian Quick - October 02, 2007
- LA Times - August 05, 2007
- Washington Post - July 01, 2007
- New York Sun - November 07, 2005
- Guardian Quiptic - May 16, 2005
- Guardian Quick - January 15, 2005
- Washington Post - January 07, 2004
- Guardian Cryptic - March 30, 2000