English Dictionary

turgid

/ˈtɜː.d͡ʒɪd/

adj

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force. / (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

The professor's turgid lecture put me to sleep.

意味（1）

Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.

I have a turgid limb.

意味（2）

(of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.

These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy.