Flatulent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Flatulent \Flat"u*lent\, a. [L. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris
     windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. F. flatulent.
     See {Blow}.]
     1. Affected with flatus[2] or gases generated in the
        alimentary canal; windy.
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     2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
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              Vegetables abound more with a["e]rial particles than
              animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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     3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. --Quincy.
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     4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty;
        vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
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              He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too
              dry.                                  --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flatulent
       adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal
       2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: {colicky},
           {gassy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  47 Moby Thesaurus words for "flatulent":
     bloated, blown up, bombastic, dilated, distended, dropsical,
     edematous, ejaculative, ejective, empty, enchymatous, eructative,
     expulsive, extrusive, fat, formal, fustian, gassy, grandiloquent,
     hollow, incrassate, inflated, mouthy, overblown, plethoric,
     pompous, pontifical, puffed up, puffy, pursy, self-important,
     shallow, solemn, stilted, stuffy, superficial, swelled, swollen,
     tumescent, tumid, turgescent, turgid, vain, ventose, vomitive,
     vomitory, windy