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What is the adjective for turgidly?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb turgesce which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

turgid
  1. Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent, especially fluid, or expansive force.
  2. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Water at the roots will keep plant stems and leaves turgid and able to photosynthesize.”
      “We managed to make it through Pete's turgid speech which had effectively plagiarized Barry's efforts.”
      “Her last novel, a turgid melodrama of white Floridian life, did little for her literary reputation.”
turgent
  1. Rising into a tumour or a puffy state; tumid.
  2. Bombastic; turgid; pompous.
  3. Examples:
    1. “Measured variables were harvest index, stress susceptibility index, osmotic potential, leaf water potential and turgent pressure.”
turgescent
  1. Becoming turgid or swollen.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The turgescent plant leaves were evidence of their healthy growth and abundant water supply.”
      “This indicates the firm appression of the plasma membrane to the cell wall, which is typical of a turgescent cell.”
      “The bloom of the grapes is preserved, the seeds are discernible against the light, and the stem is turgescent.”
turgidous
  1. (obsolete) turgid
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