Orotund \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.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
orotund
adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk";
"tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory,
large, tumid, turgid]
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: rotund,
round, pear-shaped]
WordNet (r) 2.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "orotund":
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, big-sounding,
convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming,
flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent,
grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying,
high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic,
lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, ostentatious, overdone,
overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous,
pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic,
sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall, tortuous
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bombastic, declamatory, large, pear-shaped, rotund, round, tumid, turgid
|
|
|