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Definition of rotund in English: rotundadjective rə(ʊ)ˈtʌndroʊˈtənd 1(of a person) large and plump. her brother was slim where she was rotund Example sentencesExamples - Two beady eyes set too far apart regarded them lifelessly, head cocked to the side to expose what little neck the rotund man had.
- Her rotund frame was crowded onto a porch swing, her naturally white hair colored, poorly, I might add, red.
- He has often been called the king of the slow burn, the incremental building up of rage until his entire rotund body explodes in anger.
- The rotund man left the railing to rush down a set of stairs leading to the main deck until he stood toe to toe with the much smaller Bard.
- The rotund and lawyerlike Taft did not enjoy a happy presidency.
- They entered, and a small, rotund man stood up and greeted them.
- Armstrong whirled around and saw a rotund man with a large cigar and a beard come storming across the bridge.
- They didn't even look like they would support her rotund body.
- After about an hour, I think I hear one of the receptionists, a rotund lady with bushy red hair, call out my name.
- A bit rotund, she seemed very centered on her relatively small pillow.
- The four youngest were rotund and grimy like their parents.
- And just for good measure, he is given distinct abilities from his shorter, rotund brother.
- Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
- A short and rotund figure waddled onto the stage.
- He was, as predicted, both grumpy and enormously rotund - so fat, in fact, that the cameraman had to give serious thought as to how to shoot him.
- The rotund woman compressed her lips, ‘Secrets must not be shared.’
- The population there is much different, filled with gloriously rotund men and women, fat beyond belief.
- Not waiting for the guard to finish, Mel ran towards the sickroom, with the stuttering guard and rotund matron trailing behind.
- Despite his rotund appearance, the professor was physically fit to the point of being rather scary and unnatural in his movements.
- He was a small, rotund old man, but he knew his trade well.
Synonyms plump, chubby, fat, stout, roly-poly, fattish, portly, dumpy, chunky, broad in the beam, overweight, heavy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, paunchy, Falstaffian buxom, well upholstered, well covered, well padded, of ample proportions, ample, round, rounded, well rounded, full flabby, fleshy, bulky, corpulent, obese informal tubby, pudgy, beefy, porky, blubbery, poddy British informal podgy, fubsy North American informal zaftig, corn-fed, lard-assed archaic pursy rare abdominous - 1.1 Round or spherical.
huge stoves held great rotund cauldrons Example sentencesExamples - Serving pots for coffee retained the tall tapered look of their Arab counterparts, while tea pots retained the squat, rotund shape initially seen in China.
- The nascent temperance movement, too, is suggested by the rotund whiskey jug placed prominently in the foreground.
- The approached a strange formation in the side of the cliff: a large, rotund tunnel dug deep into the side of the mountain.
Synonyms round, bulbous, spherical rare rotundate, spheral, spheric, spherular, orbicular
2(of speech or literary style) sonorous; grandiloquent. Example sentencesExamples - So the style becomes more rotund, more rococo, more elaborate.
- This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
- From sharp treble frenzy arpeggios, to screeching lead runs and rotund chords his playing produces more notes and resonance than three regular players could do on a particularly productive day.
- The Four Walls speaks in faceless clichés, the kind of rotund wordiness that bares itself in how little you gain.
Synonyms sonorous, full-toned, full-bodied, round, rich, deep, mellow, resonant, reverberant magniloquent, grandiloquent, orotund rare pear-shaped, canorous
Origin Late 15th century: from Latin rotundus, from rotare 'rotate'. Definition of rotund in US English: rotundadjectiverōˈtəndroʊˈtənd 1(of a person) plump. Example sentencesExamples - He was a small, rotund old man, but he knew his trade well.
- A bit rotund, she seemed very centered on her relatively small pillow.
- The rotund and lawyerlike Taft did not enjoy a happy presidency.
- Two beady eyes set too far apart regarded them lifelessly, head cocked to the side to expose what little neck the rotund man had.
- Her rotund frame was crowded onto a porch swing, her naturally white hair colored, poorly, I might add, red.
- Not waiting for the guard to finish, Mel ran towards the sickroom, with the stuttering guard and rotund matron trailing behind.
- After about an hour, I think I hear one of the receptionists, a rotund lady with bushy red hair, call out my name.
- The rotund woman compressed her lips, ‘Secrets must not be shared.’
- The four youngest were rotund and grimy like their parents.
- They entered, and a small, rotund man stood up and greeted them.
- They didn't even look like they would support her rotund body.
- And just for good measure, he is given distinct abilities from his shorter, rotund brother.
- He has often been called the king of the slow burn, the incremental building up of rage until his entire rotund body explodes in anger.
- Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.
- The rotund man left the railing to rush down a set of stairs leading to the main deck until he stood toe to toe with the much smaller Bard.
- Armstrong whirled around and saw a rotund man with a large cigar and a beard come storming across the bridge.
- He was, as predicted, both grumpy and enormously rotund - so fat, in fact, that the cameraman had to give serious thought as to how to shoot him.
- A short and rotund figure waddled onto the stage.
- The population there is much different, filled with gloriously rotund men and women, fat beyond belief.
- Despite his rotund appearance, the professor was physically fit to the point of being rather scary and unnatural in his movements.
Synonyms plump, chubby, fat, stout, roly-poly, fattish, portly, dumpy, chunky, broad in the beam, overweight, heavy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, paunchy, falstaffian - 1.1 Round or spherical.
huge stoves held great rotund cauldrons Example sentencesExamples - Serving pots for coffee retained the tall tapered look of their Arab counterparts, while tea pots retained the squat, rotund shape initially seen in China.
- The nascent temperance movement, too, is suggested by the rotund whiskey jug placed prominently in the foreground.
- The approached a strange formation in the side of the cliff: a large, rotund tunnel dug deep into the side of the mountain.
Synonyms round, bulbous, spherical
2(of speech or literary style) indulging in grandiloquent expression. Example sentencesExamples - From sharp treble frenzy arpeggios, to screeching lead runs and rotund chords his playing produces more notes and resonance than three regular players could do on a particularly productive day.
- This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.
- The Four Walls speaks in faceless clichés, the kind of rotund wordiness that bares itself in how little you gain.
- So the style becomes more rotund, more rococo, more elaborate.
Synonyms sonorous, full-toned, full-bodied, round, rich, deep, mellow, resonant, reverberant
Origin Late 15th century: from Latin rotundus, from rotare ‘rotate’. |