Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Rounded in figure; plump. synonym: fat.
- adjective Round or spherical.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Round or roundish; spherical or globular; rounded out; convexly protuberant; bulbous: as, a rotund paunch or figure.
- In botany and entomology, circumscribed by one unbroken curve, or without angles: as, a rotund leaf or wing.
- noun A rotunda.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Round; circular; spherical.
- adjective Hence, complete; entire.
- adjective (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so.
- noun obsolete A rotunda.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having a
round orspherical shape;circular ;orbicular . - adjective Round in body shape;
portly orplump ;podgy . - adjective of a sound Full and rich;
orotund ;sonorous ; full-toned.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of sounds) full and rich
- adjective spherical in shape
- adjective excessively fat
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Rumor also has it that Bradley lured a certain rotund blogger to the Atlantic.
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He was big -- I'd go a step further and say "rotund" -- and flamboyant.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jessica Olien 2010
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And with new evidence supporting that these dinosaurs were more "rotund" than previously hypothesized, the image sticks in my mind of this little pig-bodied, parrot-beaked reptile, studiously pawing the Early Cretaceous subtropical regions that are now Western Siberia, in search of roots, tubers, or a place in the mud to cool off.
Life's Time Capsule: The Ceratopsians Gallery Traumador 2009
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And with new evidence supporting that these dinosaurs were more "rotund" than previously hypothesized, the image sticks in my mind of this little pig-bodied, parrot-beaked reptile, studiously pawing the Early Cretaceous subtropical regions that are now Western Siberia, in search of roots, tubers, or a place in the mud to cool off.
Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009
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#18 - I liked the writing, didn't think it was "rotund".
And that as they say is vat...err that. Miss Snark 2007
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#18 - I liked the writing, didn't think it was "rotund".
And that as they say is vat...err that. Miss Snark 2007
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Isn't there quite a few "rotund" people in the Obama administration???
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Isn't there quite a few "rotund" people in the Obama administration???
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The "rotund" man with the "violent temper [and] dictatorial, commanding attitude" toward the masseuse, acted like a "crazed sex poodle."
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Geoffrey Godsell was a brilliant, bald, - and there is no other word for it - "rotund"
gcastro commented on the word rotund
round shape; rounded: "my girlfriend says my belly is rotund"
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October 1, 2010