turgid
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
LiteraryRegister
(Of language or style) tediously pompous and overblown; also, swollen or distended.
The report's findings were sound, but its turgid prose deterred all but the most dogged reader.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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