Rotund

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See {Round}, and cf.
     {Rotunda}.]
     1. Round; circular; spherical.
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     2. Hence, complete; entire.


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     3. (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n.
     A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rotund
       adj 1: spherical in shape
       2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
          reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: {orotund},
           {round}, {pear-shaped}]
       3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: {corpulent}, {obese},
           {weighty}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "rotund":
     adipose, arched, beefy, bellied, bellylike, big-bellied, bloated,
     blowzy, bosomy, bowed, brawny, bulging, burly, buxom, chubby,
     chunky, circular, consonant, convex, convexed, corpulent, crummy,
     deep, distended, dumpy, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, fat,
     fattish, fleshy, full, gibbose, gibbous, globular, gross, heavy,
     heavyset, hefty, hippy, humped, imposing, lusty, meaty, mellow,
     obese, orbicular, orotund, out-bowed, overweight, paunchy,
     plangent, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy,
     resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing,
     roly-poly, round, rounded, rounded out, sonorous, spherical,
     square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubby,
     swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vibrant,
     well-fed