'orotund' definitions:
Definition of 'orotund'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
adjective
(of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped]
Synonyms of 'orotund'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- bedizened,
- big-sounding,
- convoluted,
- declamatory,
- elevated,
- euphuistic,
- flamboyant,
- flaming,
- flashy,
- flaunting,
- fulsome,
- garish,
- gaudy,
- Gongoresque,
- grandiloquent,
- grandiose,
- grandisonant,
- high-flowing,
- high-flown,
- high-flying,
- high-sounding,
- highfalutin,
- inkhorn,
- Johnsonian,
- labyrinthine,
- lexiphanic,
- lofty,
- lurid,
- magniloquent,
- meretricious,
- ostentatious,
- overdone,
- overelaborate,
- overinvolved,
- overwrought,
- pedantic,
- pompous,
- pretentious,
- rhetorical,
- sensational,
- sensationalistic,
- sententious,
- showy,
- sonorous,
- stilted,
- tall,
- tortuous