rotund
[roh-tuhnd]
- round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.
- plump; fat.
- full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.
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Origin of rotund
Synonyms
See more synonyms for rotund on Thesaurus.com2. obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.
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Examples from the Web for rotund
Contemporary Examples
If Mike Huckabee runs for president in 2016, he could deliver the Republican nomination to a telegenic, rotund governor.
The rotund rapper pled guilty to not paying taxes from 2007 to 2008.
Bilbo (like most Hobbits) is supposed to be rotund, and Bilbo is said to be more than 50 years old.
‘The Hobbit’: 19 Changes from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Novel to Peter Jackson’s MovieAnna Klassen
December 14, 2012
Perched next to the officers was a rotund thirty-nine-year-old writer with thick wire-rim glasses named Abbott Joseph Liebling.
Washington insider and defiant iconoclast, a rotund blast from the Clinton-era past running as the candidate of radical change.
Historical Examples
He was a short man, with a rotund stomach and a wheezy voice.
'Twixt Land & SeaJoseph Conrad
The rotund lady, for herself and the prince, replies in the negative.
An OutcastF. Colburn Adams
Then he touched his most rotund portion with a significant look.
A Black AdonisLinn Boyd Porter
The body—short, plump, and rotund—could be no other than that of the unfortunate Irishman.
The Wild HuntressMayne Reid
Rusty was humble as ever, but there was an expectant look in his rotund face.
The Ghost BreakerCharles Goddard
rotund
- rounded or spherical in shape
- plump
- sonorous or grandiloquent; full in tone, style of speaking, etc
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin rotundus wheel-shaped, round, from rota wheel
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Word Origin and History for rotund
adj.
1705, from Latin rotundus "rolling, round, circular, spherical, like a wheel," from rota "wheel" (see rotary). Earlier was rotound (1610s); rotounde (early 15c.). Meaning "full-toned style of oratory" (1830) is after Horace's ore rotundo in "Poetics."
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