gassy

/'gæsi/

Thân thiện

The baby is gassy and needs to be burped.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Containing or full of gas: Describes something that has a significant amount of gas, often causing it to be inflated or fizzy.
   • Resembling gas; having the characteristics of gas: Describes something that is vaporous, airy, or insubstantial.
   • (Informal) Suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal: Describes a person experiencing flatulence or bloating.
   • (Informal, of speech or writing) Inflated, pretentious, or lacking substance: Describes language that is pompous, wordy, or full of hot air.

Usage and Examples

• Describing a fizzy drink:
  • The soda was too gassy and lost its fizz quickly.
• Describing a geological formation:
  • The region is known for its gassy coal seams, which can be dangerous for miners.
• Describing a physical condition:
  • I feel gassy after eating beans.
• Describing speech or writing:
  • The politician's gassy speech was long on promises but short on concrete plans.

Advanced Usage and Nuances

• Technical/Scientific Context: In industries like energy or chemistry, "gassy" precisely describes substances or environments containing flammable or hazardous gases.
  • The well was capped because it was gassy and posed a risk.
• Literary/Critical Context: Used as a critique to denote verbose, empty rhetoric.
  • The critic dismissed the novel's introduction as gassy and self-indulgent.

Variants and Related Words

• Gas (n.): The state of matter; a substance like air.
• Gassiness (n.): The state or condition of being gassy.
  • The gassiness of the beverage is due to carbonation.
• Degas (v.): To remove gas from something.
  • They had to degas the liquid before the experiment.

Synonyms

• Aerated: (of a liquid) infused with gas.
• Flatulent: Suffering from or causing intestinal gas.
• Windy: (informal) suffering from gas.
• Inflated: (of language) exaggerated or pretentious.
• Bombastic: High-sounding but with little meaning.

Antonyms

• Flat: (of a drink) having lost its gas or fizz.
• Substantial: Of considerable importance, size, or worth.
• Concise: Giving a lot of information clearly and in a few words.

Idioms and Fixed Phrases

• "Full of hot air": This idiom is a close conceptual synonym for the "pretentious speech" meaning of .
  • Don't listen to him; he's just full of hot air.
• "Pass gas": A polite phrase for the bodily function related to being .
  • Certain foods can make you more likely to pass gas.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. suffering from excessive gas in the alimentary canal
2. resembling gas

Từ đồng nghĩa

• colicky
• flatulent