rotund
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adjective
1.
round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
2.
plump; fat.
3.
full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.
Related forms
ro·tund·ly, adverb
sub·ro·tund, adjective
sub·ro·tund·ly, adverb
sub·ro·tund·ness, noun
un·ro·tund, adjective
Synonyms
2. obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.
2. obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.
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rotund (rəʊˈtʌnd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | rounded or spherical in shape |
| 2. | plump |
| 3. | sonorous or grandiloquent; full in tone, style of speaking, etc |
| [C18: from Latin rotundus wheel-shaped, round, from rota wheel] | |
| ro'tundity | |
| —n | |
| ro'tundness | |
| —n | |
| ro'tundly | |
| —adv | |
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Word Origin & History
rotund
1705, from L. rotundus "round, circular, like a wheel," from rota "wheel" (see rotary). Meaning "full-toned style of oratory" (1830) is after Horace's ore rotundo in "Poetics."
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Example sentences
He is played by a different actor each time-the first rotund and bumbling, the latest weedy and quiet.
All were big, had short arms and were often reconstructed as being on the more rotund and slow-moving side of scale.
He was a bit rotund, and always dapper in a dinner jacket.
Tadpoles are rotund, with high fins and dark sides and back.
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