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rotund
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective rotund has 3 senses
- rotund(s = adj.all) Array - spherical in shape; Array Derived forms noun rotundity1, noun rotundness1
- rotund(s = adj.all) orotund, pear-shaped, round - (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
- rotund(s = adj.all) corpulent, obese, weighty - excessively fat; "a weighty man"
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Round; circular; spherical. [1913 Webster]
- Hence, complete; entire. [1913 Webster]
- orbicular, or nearly so. Gray. [1913 Webster]
rotund, n.
A rotunda. Burke. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
rotund, adj.
1 a circular, round. b (of a person) large and plump, podgy.
2 (of speech, literary style, etc.) sonorous, grandiloquent.
1 a circular, round. b (of a person) large and plump, podgy.
2 (of speech, literary style, etc.) sonorous, grandiloquent.
Derivative
rotundity n. rotundly adv.
Etymology
L rotundus f. rotare ROTATE(1)
THESAURUS
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-fedROGET THESAURUS
rotund
Rotundity
N rotundity, roundness, cylindricity, sphericity, spheroidity, globosity, cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical, barrel, drum, roll, roller, rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle, cone, conoid, pear shape, egg shape, bell shape, sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder, spheroid, ellipsoid, oblong spheroid, oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid, drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn, knot (convolution), curved surface, hypersphere, hyperdimensional surface, rotund, round, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, columnar, lumbriciform, conic, conical, spherical, spheroidal, globular, globated, globous, globose, egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped, ovoid, oviform, gibbous, rixiform, campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform, fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous, tres atque rotundus, round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.
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