FLATULENT Synonyms: 45 Similar and Opposite Words

flatulent

adjective

ˈfla-chə-lənt

Definition of flatulent

as in rhetorical

marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases on election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications

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Recent Examples of flatulent Now in its fifth season, the Apple TV drama follows a gang of screw-up spies who are nobody’s idea of the Avengers, led by Gary Oldman’s irascible, flatulent Jackson Lamb. — Alison Herman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025 Our foul, flatulent father-figure may exaggerate a bit when belittling his enemies (and friends, for that matter), but cloaked under his aura of filth — like an adult Pig-Pen’s toxic dust cloud — rests a core truth. — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 24 Sep. 2025 Gary Oldman plays Jackson Lamb in the series, the curmudgeonly and flatulent chief of Slough House where all the MI5 misfits are sent. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025 The waggish jeer that subverts the Reich Chancellery, designed by Adolf Hitler's chief architect, Albert Speer, must have sent the woman who chastises children for flatulent folly into a tizzy. — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for flatulent

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Adjective

By retaining too much of the play’s rhetorical architecture, the film turns a provocative dramatic premise into something closer to an illustrated thesis.

— Beandrea July, IndieWire, 14 Sep. 2026
His recollections often take the form of dialogues in which interlocutors meekly acknowledge his overwhelming rhetorical advantage.

— Ian Parker, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of rhetorical

Adjective

There are the Vamps, inflated shoes born of the puffy Y2K lineage of skate classics like Osirises or Etnies, taken to theatrical levels of bulbous.

— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
The visually inflated size of certain landmasses such as Greenland on the Mercator map may even have geopolitical implications.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of inflated

Adjective

The sky reminds Laurel less of Earth than of some gaseous planet, streams of indigo and violet and shocking pink, the setting sun layered between them.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
This is thought to be because intense stellar radiation strips planets of their gaseous layers effectively shrinking them.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of gaseous

Adjective

The end result would be a gassy surface shining as brightly as a more exposed black hole but with the Balmer break and smooth red hump of a 5,000-kelvin star, de Graaff and Naidu theorized.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 14 Sep. 2026
Oscar-winning actor Gary Oldman, known to fans of AppleTV series Slow Horses as the shambolic, gassy spy Jackson Lamb, will be honored at this year Edinburgh Television Festival with the fest’s lifetime achievement honor, the Golden Icon Award.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026

Definition of gassy

Adjective

In another decree published Monday, Leo canceled Francis’ plans to move some of the Vatican’s secret archives and library holdings out of the city state and onto the grounds of a pontifical university across town.

— Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Leo opened his visit to Pompeii by meeting with sick and disabled people who are cared for by a charity center affiliated with the sanctuary, which Leo’s namesake, Pope Leo XIII, declared a pontifical basilica in 1901.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 May 2026

Definition of pontifical

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