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词汇 turgid
释义 turgid
adjective
uk /ˈtɜː.dʒɪd/ us /ˈtɝː.dʒɪd/

turgidadjective (TOO SERIOUS)


formal
(of speech, writing, style, etc.) boring and too serious about its subject matter: (讲话、写作、风格等)太严肃的,枯燥乏味的
a couple of pages of turgid prose几页枯燥乏味的散文
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not interesting or exciting
boringThat was such a boring film I nearly fell asleep during it.
excruciatingShe went over the plot of the book in excruciating detail.
deadlyHis latest film was just deadly. I left after the first hour!
mind-numbingThe incident was described in a mind-numbing, 400-page report so dense that no one read it.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Tedious and uninspiring
(as) dull as ditchwateridiom
anonymous
banal
banally
basic
marginal
marmoreal
meh
menial
menially
staid
staidly
stale
staleness
stodgily
viewless
watch paint dryidiom
watch the clockidiom
wearisome
wearisomely

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Lacking humour

turgidadjective (NOT FLOWING)


formal
(of water) not flowing easily: (水)流动不畅的,不易流动的
The river rolled darkly brown and turgid.河水流动不畅,翻着浊黄的浪花。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Movement of liquids
backsplash
be dripping with somethingidiom
brim
brim over
brim with something
drip
funnel
leakage
pour
pour-over
reinject
reinjection
respray
ripple
spate
staunch
stem
swash
swill
swirl

turgidadjective (SWOLLEN)


medical specialized
(of an organ or living tissue) swollen or firm, usually because of being full of liquid(器官或生物组织)肿大的,肿胀的,膨胀的
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Swellings & lumps
acoustic neuroma
actinomycosis
adenitis
adenoma hyperplastic nodules
anasarca
bloated
dropsy
elephantiasis
encephalomyelitis
enchondroma
equine encephalitis
inflamed
inflammatory
pouchy
puffy
thyroid nodule
torus
tumescence
tumid
tumour

turgidity


noun[ U ] medical formal or specializeduk /tɜːˈdʒɪd.ə.ti/ us /tɝːˈdʒɪd.ə.t̬i/

turgidly


adverb formaluk /ˈtɜː.dʒɪd.li/ us /ˈtɝː.dʒɪd.li/

turgid | American Dictionary


turgid
adjective
us/ˈtɜr·dʒɪd/

turgidadjective (TOO SERIOUS)


(of speech or writing) too serious and very boring:
turgid prose

turgidadjective (SWOLLEN)


swollen:
turgid rain clouds

Examples of turgid


turgid
All cells look turgid, and organelles, including the nuclei, are clearly visible.
His anecdotes lighten the tone of what might be considered more turgid information on rail and road construction, flight paths, plane types and federal regulation.
When occupied by a young larva the larval chamber was nearly circular with many layers of turgid and hypertrophied cells.
Cells with the giant lipid body aggregates were turgid and had discernible organelles.
The starch granules were more angular in the dry kernels than in the imbibed kernels, in which the starch granules were rounder and more turgid.
Infected radicles became soft, spongy and brown, compared with healthy radicles, which were turgid and yellowish-green.
Cells of both tissue types are turgid and compartmentalized, which is a sign of being alive.
The outer two or three cell layers (top) have heavily folded walls, while the deeper-lying cells have a normal, turgid appearance.
Deeper-located cell layers have an intact, turgid appearance, which suggests that the rate of water entrance into the deeper cell layers was moderated.
Figure 9d shows the boundary between dead and healthy cells, where live, turgid cells with aggregated lipid bodies (up to 15 m) were noticed.
The book represents many hours spent poring over stolidly turgid scientific writing searching for distasteful traces of racial self-importance.
The cells of the embryo are turgid and their nuclei (n) are clearly visible.
As such over-use of the circumlocutory and turgid suggests, effort should be directed toward encouraging in individuals a sensitivity to tone.
It has, however, been ascertained that extensive deaths do not occur in bulbs which are kept out of the ground at this time and so do not become turgid.
Here, many of the contributors, trapped inside the straitjackets of their word limits, have opted for a density of factual narrative which, it must be said, is often extremely turgid.
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