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orotund
adjective
Synonyms and Antonyms of OROTUND
1
marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones <the tenor's orotund voice was just what this soaring aria needs>
Synonyms golden, orotund, plangent, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant
Related Words deep, full, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, plummy, rich; loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous
2
marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases <a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism>
Related Words bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid; overdone, verbose, wordy
Near Antonyms eloquent, well-spoken; bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious
Antonyms unrhetorical
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