rotund

[ roh-tuhnd ]

/ roʊˈtʌnd /

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adjective

round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.

plump; fat.

full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.

OTHER WORDS FOR rotund

2 obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.

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Origin of rotund

1695–1705; <Latin rotundus round, circular, derivative of rota wheel; cf. round¹

OTHER WORDS FROM rotund

ro·tund·ly, adverbsub·ro·tund, adjectivesub·ro·tund·ly, adverbsub·ro·tund·ness, noun

un·ro·tund, adjective

Words nearby rotund

rottenstone, rotten to the core, rotter, Rotterdam, Rottweiler, rotund, rotunda, rotundity, roturier, ROU, Rouault

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How to use rotund in a sentence

Long lines have formed outside Olympics merchandise stores in Beijing, with some people camping overnight to snag the rotund panda plushie—only to find that it has sold out for the day.
Olympic Mascot Bing Dwen Dwen has a scarcity problem. But what kind?|Michelle Cheng|February 12, 2022|Quartz
These horned animals stood on long legs, unlike their rotund cousins you’d see on a farm today.
Humans probably didn’t mean to tame sheep and goats|Philip Kiefer|January 19, 2022|Popular-Science
To rebuild neural circuits, neurons constantly monitor the status of their neighbors through sinewy branches that sprout from a rotund body.
Friend or Foe? Single Neurons in the Brain Control Social Interaction, Study Finds|Shelly Fan|October 26, 2021|Singularity Hub
If Mike Huckabee runs for president in 2016, he could deliver the Republican nomination to a telegenic, rotund governor.
Huckabee 2016 Would Give Iowa to Christie|Ben Jacobs|December 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The rotund rapper pled guilty to not paying taxes from 2007 to 2008.
Bryan Cranston As Lex Luthor, Madonna Tops Highest Paid Celebs List|Culture Team|August 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The surprise choice was the gregarious rotund 77-year-old patriarch of Venice.
The Catholic Church Is Insular and Intolerant|Robert Shrum|March 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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 Movie|Anna Klassen|December 14, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Perched next to the officers was a rotund thirty-nine-year-old writer with thick wire-rim glasses named Abbott Joseph Liebling.
The Story of the American Journalists Who Landed on D-Day|Timothy M. Gay|June 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST
She stood looking at him as he danced around the bag, busily punching its rotund sides.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
A little beyond these three hippopotami floated in the water, only the upper parts of their heads and rotund bodies being visible.
Hunting the Lions|R.M. Ballantyne
Wrecked freighters from Saturn or Earth floated beside rotund grain-boats from Jupiter.
The Sargasso of Space|Edmond Hamilton
A little rotund individual, smiling, lets me know that he has seen a number of my pictures.
My Wonderful Visit|Charlie Chaplin
There is a rotund, porpoise-shaped globular gentleman known of these parts as 'Bim the Button Man.'
The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2|Various

British Dictionary definitions for rotund

rotund

/ (rəʊˈtʌnd) /

adjective

rounded or spherical in shape

plump

sonorous or grandiloquent; full in tone, style of speaking, etc

Derived forms of rotund

rotundity or rotundness, nounrotundly, adverb

Word Origin for rotund

C18: from Latin rotundus wheel-shaped, round, from rota wheel

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