adjective

• 1(of a person) large and plump.

  ‘her brother was slim where she was rotund’

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  • ‘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.’

  Synonyms

  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’
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     • ‘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.’
     Synonyms

     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.’

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  • ‘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.’

  Synonyms

  sonorous, full-toned, full-bodied, round, rich, deep, mellow, resonant, reverberant

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