imposing; dignified; pompous; having a strong or full voice
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(n.)
The orotund voice or utterance
The orotund voice or utterance
(a.)
Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutCharacterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance.
orotund
\o"ro*tund`\ (?), a. [l. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus round, smooth.] characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance. -- n. the orotund voice or utterance
orotund
adj
1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic, declamatory, large, tumid, turgid]
2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: rotund, round, pear-shaped]
Adjective
1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
(synonym) bombastic, declamatory, large, tumid, turgid
(similar) rhetorical
2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"
(synonym) rotund, round, pear-shaped
(similar) full
