Found 3 hits - Term: flatulent, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
flatulent \flat"ulent\, a. l. flatus a blowing, flatus ventris
windiness, flatulence, fr. flare to blow: cf. f. flatulent.
see blow.
1. affected with flatus2 or gases generated in the
alimentary canal; windy.
1913 webster
2. generating, or tending to generate, wind in the stomach.
1913 webster
vegetables abound more with a"erial particles than
animal substances, and therefore are more flatulent.
--arbuthnot.
1913 webster
3. turgid with flatus; as, a flatulent tumor. --quincy.
1913 webster
4. pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty;
vain; as, a flatulent vanity.
1913 webster
he is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too
dry. --dryden.
1913 webster
see also:
blow
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
flatulent
adj 1: generating excessive gas in the alimentary canal
2: suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal syn: colicky,
gassy
see also:
colicky gassy
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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