Word Meanings - SWOLLEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

p. p. of Swell.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SWOLLEN)

• Tumid
• Swollen
• distended
• protuberant
• inflated
• turgid
• bombastic
• pompous
• high-flown
• stilted
• grandiloquent

Related words: (words related to SWOLLEN)

• INFLATE
  Blown in; inflated. Chaucer.
• INFLATED
  Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn. 4. Distended or enlarged fictitiously; as, inflated prices, etc. (more info) 1. Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas. 2. Turgid;
• TUMIDITY
  The quality or state of being tumid.
• SWOLLEN
  p. p. of Swell.
• INFLATER
  One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• PROTUBERANT
  Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
• HIGH-FLOWN
  1. Elevated; proud. "High-flown hopes." Denham. 2. Turgid; extravagant; bombastic; inflated; as, high-flown language. M. Arnold.
• POMPOUS
  1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
• TURGIDOUS
  Turgid. B. Jonson.
• INFLATINGLY
  In a manner tending to inflate.
• TURGID
  1. 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 bladder . . . held near the fire
• STILTBIRD
  See 3
• STILTON CHEESE; STILTON
  A peculiarly flavored unpressed cheese made from milk with cream added; -- so called from the village or parish of Stilton, England, where it was originally made. It is very rich in fat. Thus, in the outset he was gastronomic; discussed the dinner
• INFLATIONIST
  One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money.
• TUMID
  1. Swelled, enlarged, or distended; as, a tumid leg; tumid flesh. 2. Rising above the level; protuberant. So high as heaved the tumid hills. Milton. 3. Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as,
• INFLATABLE
  That may be inflated.
• INFLATUS
  A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration. The divine breath that blows the nostrils out To ineffable inflatus. Mrs. Browning.
• STILTED
  Elevated as if on stilts; hence, pompous; bombastic; as, a stilted style; stilted declamation. Stilted arch , an arch in which the springing line is some distance above the impost, the space between being occupied by a vertical member, molded or
• INFLATION
  1. The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement. Boyle. 2. The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity. B. Jonson. 3. Undue expansion or increase, from