Meaning of rotund in English:

rotund

Pronunciation /rə(ʊ)ˈtʌnd/

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adjective

1(of a person) large and plump.
‘her brother was slim where she was rotund’
- ‘Two beady eyes set too far apart regarded them lifelessly, head cocked to the side to expose what little neck the rotund man had.’
- ‘The rotund woman compressed her lips, ‘Secrets must not be shared.’’
- ‘A short and rotund figure waddled onto the stage.’
- ‘Not waiting for the guard to finish, Mel ran towards the sickroom, with the stuttering guard and rotund matron trailing behind.’
- ‘They entered, and a small, rotund man stood up and greeted them.’
- ‘And just for good measure, he is given distinct abilities from his shorter, rotund brother.’
- ‘The rotund man left the railing to rush down a set of stairs leading to the main deck until he stood toe to toe with the much smaller Bard.’
- ‘Armstrong whirled around and saw a rotund man with a large cigar and a beard come storming across the bridge.’
- ‘He has often been called the king of the slow burn, the incremental building up of rage until his entire rotund body explodes in anger.’
- ‘He was a small, rotund old man, but he knew his trade well.’
- ‘Despite his rotund appearance, the professor was physically fit to the point of being rather scary and unnatural in his movements.’
- ‘The four youngest were rotund and grimy like their parents.’
- ‘They didn't even look like they would support her rotund body.’
- ‘Just as she reached the stairs to enter the house, an ugly gelding cantered to a stop and the rotund rider ungracefully dismounted.’
- ‘The rotund and lawyerlike Taft did not enjoy a happy presidency.’
- ‘Her rotund frame was crowded onto a porch swing, her naturally white hair colored, poorly, I might add, red.’
- ‘A bit rotund, she seemed very centered on her relatively small pillow.’
- ‘The population there is much different, filled with gloriously rotund men and women, fat beyond belief.’
- ‘After about an hour, I think I hear one of the receptionists, a rotund lady with bushy red hair, call out my name.’
- ‘He was, as predicted, both grumpy and enormously rotund - so fat, in fact, that the cameraman had to give serious thought as to how to shoot him.’
plump, chubby, fat, stout, roly-poly, fattish, portly, dumpy, chunky, broad in the beam, overweight, heavy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, paunchy, Falstaffian
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1. 1.1Round or spherical.
  ‘huge stoves held great rotund cauldrons’
  ‘The nascent temperance movement, too, is suggested by the rotund whiskey jug placed prominently in the foreground.’
  ‘Serving pots for coffee retained the tall tapered look of their Arab counterparts, while tea pots retained the squat, rotund shape initially seen in China.’
  ‘The approached a strange formation in the side of the cliff: a large, rotund tunnel dug deep into the side of the mountain.’
  round, bulbous, spherical
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2(of speech or literary style) sonorous; grandiloquent.
‘This phraseology is grandiose, rotund and sonorous, but signifies a fatal weakness in Walcott's approach to both Brand and Philip.’
- ‘So the style becomes more rotund, more rococo, more elaborate.’
- ‘From sharp treble frenzy arpeggios, to screeching lead runs and rotund chords his playing produces more notes and resonance than three regular players could do on a particularly productive day.’
- ‘The Four Walls speaks in faceless clichés, the kind of rotund wordiness that bares itself in how little you gain.’
sonorous, full-toned, full-bodied, round, rich, deep, mellow, resonant, reverberant
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