Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf.
Rotunda.]
1. Round; circular; spherical.
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2. Hence, complete; entire.
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3. (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n.
A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
rotund
adj 1: spherical in shape
2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund,
round, pear-shaped]
3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese,
weighty]
WordNet (r) 2.0
87 Moby Thesaurus words for "rotund":
adipose, arched, beefy, bellied, bellylike, big-bellied, bloated,
blowzy, bosomy, bowed, brawny, bulging, burly, buxom, chubby,
chunky, circular, consonant, convex, convexed, corpulent, crummy,
deep, distended, dumpy, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, fat,
fattish, fleshy, full, gibbose, gibbous, globular, gross, heavy,
heavyset, hefty, hippy, humped, imposing, lusty, meaty, mellow,
obese, orbicular, orotund, out-bowed, overweight, paunchy,
plangent, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy,
resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing,
roly-poly, round, rounded, rounded out, sonorous, spherical,
square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubby,
swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vibrant,
well-fed
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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