The Clue
Pompous; bombastic (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TUMID
Tags
Notes
The answer TUMID is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
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Definition
TUMID as an adjective:
1. (bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid) = ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
2. (bloated, distended, puffed, puffy, swollen, intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid) = 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"
3. (tumid, erect) = of sexual organs; stiff and rigid