Flatulent
Flatulent adjective - Marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases.
Usage example: on election night TV's self-important pundits let loose a fusillade of flatulent pontifications
Orotund and flatulent are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Orotund" instead an adjective "Flatulent".
Nearby Words: flatulence, flatulency
Orotund
Orotund adjective - Marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases.
Usage example: a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- sonorous and flatulent
- sonorous and orotund
- flowery and flatulent
- flowery and orotund
- rhetorical and flatulent
- rhetorical and orotund
- loud and flatulent
- loud and orotund
- pretentious and flatulent
- pretentious and orotund
- bombastic and flatulent
- bombastic and orotund
- grandiose and flatulent
- grandiose and orotund
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