orotund
1. ostentatiously lofty in style - a man given to large talk - tumid political prose • Syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, tumid, turgid • Similar to: rhetorical • Derivationally related forms: turgidness (for: turgid), turgidity (for: turgid), largeness (for: large), bombast (for: bombastic) 2. (of sounds) full and rich - orotund tones - the rotund and reverberating phrase - pear-shaped vowels • Syn: rotund, round, pear-shaped • Similar to: full • Derivationally related forms: roundness (for: round)
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