adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh"

adj. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

adj. characterized by great swelling waves or surges; "billowy storm clouds"; "the restless billowing sea"; "surging waves"

adj. elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech"

adj. puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek

adj. affectedly genteel

adj. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer

adj. having or showing feelings of unwarranted importance out of overbearing pride; "an arrogant official"; "arrogant claims"; "chesty as a peacock"

adj. (of a display) tawdry or vulgar

adj. making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"

adj. using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

adj. full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors"

adj. use of more words than required to express an idea: "a wordy gossipy account of a simple incident"; "a redundant text crammed with amplifications of the obvious"

adj. severely inflamed and painful; "an angry sore"

adj. of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief"

adj. relating to breathing with a whistling sound

adj. covered with small blisters

adj. characterized or caused by inflammation; "an inflammatory process"; "an inflammatory response"

adj. having an ulcer or canker

adj. afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle

adj. (of teeth) affected with cavities or decay

adj. of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike

adj. having chilblains; "her poor chilblained hands"

adj. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal

adj. full of seeds; "as seedy as a fig"

adj. caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"

adj. swollen with an excessive accumulation of fluid

adj. larger than normal; "enlarged joints"

adj. suffering from tissue death

adj. growing abnormally into the flesh; "an ingrown toenail"

adj. characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane); "membranous gastritis"

adj. unhealthy looking

adj. suffering from overexposure to direct sunlight

adj. abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins"

adj. (of a metric foot) characterized by two short syllables followed by a long one

adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

adj. used or applied in the investigation and establishment of facts or evidence in a court of law; "forensic photograph"; "forensic ballistics"

adj. lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying"

adj. characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

adj. characteristic of or befitting poetry; "poetic diction"

adj. of or relating to style (especially in the use of language); "stylistic devices"