turgid

1. (of language or style) Overly complex and difficult to understand; grandiloquent; bombastic.Examples: "These were all basic tenets, but the principals wrote them down as if they had never heard them before—and maybe they hadn’t, or at least not for many years. Perhaps that’s why bureaucratic prose becomes so turgid, whatever the bureaucracy."; "Sounding rather suspiciously like Professor H. Bloom’s turgid studies of artistic influenza[…]"; "Published TV-scholarship sure reflects this mood. And the numbingly dull quality to most “literary” television analyses is due less to the turgid abstraction scholars employ to make television seem an OK object of aesthetic inquiry […]"Synonyms: bombastic, grandiose, pompous