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rotund

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ro·tund  (r-tnd)
adj.
1. Rounded in figure; plump. See Synonyms at fat.
2. Having a full, rich sound; sonorous.

[Latin rotundus; see ret- in Indo-European roots.]

ro·tundi·ty, ro·tundness n.
ro·tundly adv.

rotund [rəʊˈtʌnd]
adj
1. rounded or spherical in shape
2. plump
3. sonorous or grandiloquent; full in tone, style of speaking, etc.
[from Latin rotundus wheel-shaped, round, from rota wheel]
rotundity , rotundness n
rotundly  adv
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.rotund - spherical in shape
rounded - curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"
2.rotund - (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
full - (of sound) having marked deepness and body; "full tones"; "a full voice"
3.rotundrotund - excessively fat; "a weighty man"    
fat - having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was"

rotund
adjective
2. pompous, grandiloquent, orotund, magniloquent, full writing rotund passages of purple prose
3. round, rounded, spherical, bulbous, globular, orbicular rotund towers, moats and drawbridges
4. sonorous, round, deep, rich, mellow, resonant, orotund, reverberant the wonderfully rotund tones of the presenter
Translations
rotund [rəʊˈtʌnd] ADJ [person] → corpulento, rotundo
rotund [rəʊˈtʌnd] adj [person, figure] → rondelet(te)
rotund
adj personrund(lich); objectrund; speech, literary stylebombastisch, hochtrabend; voicevoll
rotund [rəʊˈtʌnd] adj (frm) (person) → pingue; (object) → arrotondato/a
rotund [rəʊˈtʌnd] adj (frm) (person) → pingue; (object) → arrotondato/a


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Behind the city swept the rotund upland of St Catherine's Hill; further off, landscape beyond landscape, till the horizon was lost in the radiance of the sun hanging above it.
I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate.
Then its ample seat would have been pressed by the comfortable, rotund corporation of the honest mint-master.
 
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