FLAT'ULENT, a. [L. flatulentus, flatus, from flo, to blow.]
1. Windy; affected with air generated in the stomach and intestines.2. Turgid with air; windy; as a flatulent tumor.3. Generating or apt to a generate wind in the stomach. Pease are a flatulent vegetable.4. Empty; vain; big without substance or reality; puffy; as a flatulent writer; flatulent vanity.