orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped
(adjective) (of sounds) full and rich; “orotund tones”; “the rotund and reverberating phrase”; “pear-shaped vowels”
bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
(adjective) ostentatiously lofty in style; “a man given to large talk”; “tumid political prose”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
orotund (comparative more orotund, superlative most orotund)
Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
Pompous; bombastic.
• (fullness of sound): sonorous; see also sonorous
• (pompous): pompous; see also arrogant
• rotundo, round to
Source: Wiktionary
O"ro*tund`, a. Etym: [L. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus round, smooth.]
Definition: Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.
– n.
Definition: The orotund voice or utterance Rush.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 December 2024
(noun) small asexual fruiting body resembling a cushion or blister consisting of a mat of hyphae that is produced on a host by some fungi
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
