Word Meanings - TUMOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Swelling; protuberant. Sir H. Wotton. 2. Inflated; bombastic. B. Jonson.
Related words: (words related to TUMOROUS)
- 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; - INFLATER
One who, or that which, inflates; as, the inflaters of the stock exchange. - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - 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. - INFLATINGLY
In a manner tending to inflate. - SWELL
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in - SWELLDOM
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. - INFLATIONIST
One who favors an increased or very large issue of paper money. - SWELLING
an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; - 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. - SWELLISH
Dandified; stylish. - 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 - SWELLFISH
Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon. - BOMBASTIC; BOMBASTICAL
Characterized by bombast; highsounding; inflated. -- Bom*bas"tic*al*ly, adv. A theatrical, bombastic, windy phraseology. Burke. Syn. -- Turgid; tumid; pompous; grandiloquent. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - UNSWELL
To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer. - HEARTSWELLING
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser. - BOSWELLISM
The style of Boswell. - HIGH-SWELLING
Inflated; boastful. - OUTSWELL
1. To exceed in swelling. 2. To swell beyond; to overflow. Hewyt.