Orotund

Definition: Orotund

Orotund

Adjective

1. Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose".

2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "orotund" was first used: 1792. (references)

Etymology: Orotund \O"ro*tund`\, adjective. [Latin expression os, oris, the mouth rotundus round, smooth.]. (references)

Synonyms: Orotund

Ornament

Adjective: ornament; Verb: beautified; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic, euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big-sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent; sesquipedal, sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.

Crosswords: Orotund

Albanian

tingëllues (resonant, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding), i fuqishëm (able bodied, forcible, full-blooded, green, hard, hearty, heavy, hefty, husky, lusty, marrowy, mighty, potent, potential, powerful, racy, red blooded, robust, sound, spanking, stalwart, strenuous, strong, sturdy, trenchant, vigorous, violent), i fryrë (assuming, bloated, bombastic, bulging, bumptious, cock-a-hoop, conceited, extravagant, flatulent, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, highfaluting, high-sounding, hoity toity, inflated, mouthy, overblown, plethoric, pompous, puffed, puffed up, puffy, sounding, swollen, tumid, turgid, uppish, uppity, vainglorious). (various references)

Arabic 

‏طنان (bombastic, fustian, grandiloquent, pompous, puffy, resonant, rotund, runic, sonorous, sounding, stilted, tall, tumid, turgid, windy), ‏جهوري (loud, soniferous, sonorous, stentorian, strong), ‏رنان (metallic, pompous, pretentious, puffy, resonant, ringing, sonorous, sounding, swelling, vibrant). (various references)

Bulgarian 

натруфен (dressy, elaborate, gingerbread, luxurious, ornate, tacky, tawdry, twopence colored, twopence coloured), надут (bombastic, conceited, consequential, coxcombical, declamatory, florid, grandiloquent, haughty, high-blown, highfaluting, important, inflated, magniloquent, mandarin, mouthy, overblown, pompous, portentous, prancing, puffy, sidy, solemn, sounding, stilted, swelling, swollen, theatrical, tumid, uppish, uppity), звучен (deep-mouthed, full, liquid, melodious, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, smacking, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, sweet, tuneful, vibrant, vocal, voiced, voiceful), плътен (closely-knit, compact, compacted, consistent, dense, fruity, open, resonant, rich, rotund, round, solid, sonorous, stiff, thick). (various references)

French

sonore, ampoulé. (various references)

German

bombastisch (bombastic, bombastically, fustian, overdone, pompously, portentous, pretentious, rotund, showy). (various references)

Greek 

ηχηρόσ (brassy, clangourous, resonant, resounding, sonant, soniferous, sonorous), ηχερόσ, επιβλητικόσ (commanding, grandiose, imperial, imposing, impressive). (various references)

Hungarian

zengõ hangú, fellengzõs (highfaluting, magniloquent, pompous), öblös hang (full voice, rich voice). (various references)

Italian

sonoro (loud, plangent, resonant, ringing, sonorous, voiced). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

円転たる (smoothly rolling, spherical). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

え�"て�"たる (moving smoothly, shapely, smoothly rolling, spherical). (various references)

Pig Latin

orotunday.(various references)

Portuguese

sonoro (euphonious, harmonious, loud, mouth-filling, phonal, plangent, reverberant, reverberating, ringing, rotund, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, vibrant, vocal, voiced), pretensioso (assuming, assumptive, bounder, bumptious, chesty, cocksure, cocksy, cocky, conceited, donnish, exquisite, goody, gooey, hoity-toity, la-di-da, pretentious, prig, priggish, select, showy, snob, snooty, square-toed, swanky), pomposo (budge, consequential, formal, gallant, garish, grandiose, lofty, measured, ostentatious, pompous, puffed-up, showy, solemn, sounding, stately, stiff, tumid), grandíloquo (sonorous), empolado (bombastic, inflated, mouthy, oratorical, puffed-up, rhetoric, rhetorical, rotund, stilted, tumid, turgid). (various references)

Romanian

sonor (canorous, deep-toned, echoing, loud, resonant, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, soft, sonorous, sonorously, sound, vocal, voiced, voiceful), rãsunãtor (celebrated, clangorous, famous, great, loud, resonant, resounding, rich, ringing, sonorous, thundering, thunderous, to the echo), plin (complete, contents, entire, full, high, integral, paved, replete, repletion, round, solid), demn (dignified, haughty, matronly, respectable, stately, worthily). (various references)

Russian 

четкий (clear-cut, distinct, legible, neat, trenchant, well-defined), напыщенный (bombastic, declamatory, flatulent, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-blown, highfalutin, highfaluting, mouth-filling, mouthy, pompous, toploty, tub-thumping, tumid), звучный (fruity, resonant, rotting, soniferous, sonorous, sounding), полнозвучный. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naduvan (aureate, hot air, inflated, puff up, puffed, puffed up), milozvučan (dulcet, euphonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodious, smooth, tuneful). (various references)

Spanish

rimbombante (bombastic, flamboyant, meretricious), resonante (booming, plangent, resonant, ringing). (various references)

Swedish

pompös (declamatory, highfaluting, pompous, portentous). (various references)

Thai

กังวานชั�". (various references)

Turkish

tantanalı (grandiose, pompous, puffy, rotund, showy, sonorous, sounding), dolgun sesli. (various references)

Ukrainian

ясний (articulate, categorical, clean-cut, clear, cloudless, coherent, definite, determinate, distinct, elegant, explicative, explicatory, fine, limpid, lucid, neat, nude, obvious, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, robust, trenchant), чіткий (articulate, clear-cut, coherent, crisp, neat, plucky, precise, vivid, well-defined), гучний (altisonant, big, boffo, deep-mouthed, exclamatory, loud, reverberating, spoken, vocal, wild), виразний (appellative, apt, articulate, audible, bold, clear, concise, eloquent, emphatic, emphatical, expressional, expressive, impressive, legible, meaningful, nervous, pronounced, pure, sharp, speaking, talking), звучний (reverberant, ringing, soniferous, sonorous, sounding), претензійний стиль, пишномовний (altisonant, baggy, declamatory, exaggerative, gorgeous, grandiloquent, heroic, magniloquent, mannered, opulent, ornate, ossianic, puffy, rhetorical, stilted, turgid). (various references)

Vietnamese 

khoa trương (flamboyant, heroic, high-falutin, high-faluting, high-sounding, pompous, rhapsodic, rhapsodical). (various references)

ore rotundo. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "orotund": orotundities, orotundity. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Orotund" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fratmund, Oresund, oriundi, Orodruin, orotound, oround, rotound. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rotund, unroot, untrod.

-2 letters: donor, donut, odour, outdo, rondo, round, tondo.

-3 letters: door, dour, dunt, durn, duro, nurd, odor, onto, ordo, rood, root, roto, rout, runt, toon, torn, toro, tour, trod, turd, turn, undo, unto.

-4 letters: don, dor, dot, dun, duo, nod, noo, nor, not, nut, oot, ort, oud, our, out, rod, rot, run.

+1 letter: unrooted.

+2 letters: conductor, contoured, downcourt, groundout, outsnored, tournedos, underfoot, undertook.

+3 letters: conductors, groundouts, northbound, orotundity, outfrowned, outrebound, outscorned, production, roundabout, stormbound, undershoot, understood, undoctored, unorthodox.

+4 letters: nonauditory, outdoorsman, outdoorsmen, outdropping, outrebounds, overcounted, productions, profoundest, recontoured, roundabouts, undershoots, unmonitored, unorthodoxy.

+5 letters: conductorial, conquistador, coproduction, countermoved, counterorder, counterposed, counterworld, fluoridation, introduction, introductory, nonconductor, orotundities, outorganized, outproducing, outrebounded, overdiscount, overdocument, productional, refoundation, reproduction, southernwood, subordinator, uncontrolled, unorthodoxly, uprootedness.