Meaning of OROTUND
| Pronunciation: | | 'owru`tund
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | bombastic, declamatory, full, large, pear-shaped, rhetorical, rotund, round, tumid, turgid |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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