About The Word Flatulent
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Flatulent
Flatulent Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Flatulent?
[adj] suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
[adj] generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal Synonyms | Synonyms for Flatulent: colicky | gassy | indigestible | unhealthy Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | Flatulent In Webster's Dictionary \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 or gases generated in the alimentary
canal; windy.
2. Generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
Vegetables abound more with a["e]rial particles than
animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
--Arbuthnot.
3. Turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. --Quincy.
4. Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty;
vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too
dry. --Dryden.
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