About The Word Orotund
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Orotund
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What's The Definition Of Orotund?
[adj] (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
[adj] ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" Synonyms | Synonyms for Orotund: bombastic | declamatory | full | large | pear-shaped | rhetorical | rotund | round | tumid | turgid Related Terms | Find terms related to Orotund: affected | bedizened | big-sounding | convoluted | declamatory | elevated | euphuistic | flamboyant | flaming | flashy | flaunting | fulsome | garish | gaudy | Gongoresque | grandiloquent | grandiose | grandisonant | highfalutin | high-flowing | high-flown | high-flying | high-sounding | inkhorn | Johnsonian | labyrinthine | lexiphanic | lofty | lurid | magniloquent | meretricious | ostentatious | overdone | overelaborate | overinvolved | overwrought | pedantic | pompous | pretentious | rhetorical | sensational | sensationalistic | sententious | showy | sonorous | stilted | tall | tortuous See Also | Orotund In Webster's Dictionary \O"ro*tund`\, a. [L. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus
round, smooth.]
Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and
smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or
manner of utterance. -- n. The orotund voice or utterance
--Rush.
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