rotund

[ roh-tuhnd ]

/ roʊˈtʌnd /

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adjective

round in shape; rounded: ripe, rotund fruit.

plump; fat.

full-toned or sonorous: rotund speeches.

Nearby words

rottenness, rottenstone, rotter, rotterdam, rottweiler, rotund, rotunda, rotundity, rotundly, roturier, rotwelsch

Origin of rotund

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

SYNONYMS FOR rotund

2 obese, fleshy, corpulent, stout, portly.

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Related forms

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

un·ro·tund, adjective

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Examples from the Web for rotund

If Mike Huckabee runs for president in 2016, he could deliver the Republican nomination to a telegenic, rotund governor.
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The rotund rapper pled guilty to not paying taxes from 2007 to 2008.
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Bilbo (like most Hobbits) is supposed to be rotund, and Bilbo is said to be more than 50 years old.
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Perched next to the officers was a rotund thirty-nine-year-old writer with thick wire-rim glasses named Abbott Joseph Liebling.
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Washington insider and defiant iconoclast, a rotund blast from the Clinton-era past running as the candidate of radical change.
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Madame Sendel's rotund checks had collapsed, she looked cross and jaundiced, and more snuffy than ever.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847|Various
Prosperous old gentlemen pacing home, rotund in their buttoned-up coats, had clear drops at the end of their noses.
The House with the Green Shutters|George Douglas Brown
The captain's form was dimly discernible against the canvas dodger, extraordinarily huge and rotund.
Command|William McFee
The species which are not so rotund as the others, as D. Perdix, Auct.
A Conchological Manual|George Brettingham Sowerby
You look in vain among the aviators for a huge, rotund figure.
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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 Formsrotundity or rotundness, nounrotundly, adverb

Word Origin for rotund

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

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Word Origin and History for rotund

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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