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Orotund

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Adjective

1. bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid

ostentatiously lofty in style

Example Sentences:
'a man given to large talk'
'tumid political prose'

2. orotund, pear-shaped, rotund, round

(of sounds) full and rich

Example Sentences:
'orotund tones'
'the rotund and reverberating phrase'
'pear-shaped vowels'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Orotund

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adjective
1. 
(of the voice) resonant; booming
2. 
(of speech or writing) bombastic; pompous

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Orotund

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adjective
1. 
clear, strong, and deep; resonant
said of the voice
2. 
bombastic or pompous
said of a style of speaking or writing

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Orotund

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adj.
1. Pompous and bombastic: orotund talk.
2. Full in sound; sonorous: orotund tones.

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