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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

Synonyms: bombastic (adj), declamatory (adj), large (adj), pear-shaped (adj), rotund (adj), round (adj), tumid (adj), turgid (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Orotund

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Orotund

English words defined with "orotund": Orotundity. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Orotund

"Orotund" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Orotund" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Orotund

Language Translations for "orotund"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Orotund

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

ore rotundo. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Orotund

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)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Orotund

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-n-o-o-r-t-u"

-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.

 Words containing the letters "d-n-o-o-r-t-u"
 

+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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Translations: Ancient
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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