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orotund

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of orotund

1 marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones

the tenor's orotund voice was just what this soaring aria needs

Synonyms of orotund

golden, plangent, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant

Words Related to orotund

deep, full, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, plummy, rich

loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous

Near Antonyms of orotund

cavernous, hollow

faint, low, murmurous, muted, smothered, soft, weak

2 marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases

a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism

Synonyms of orotund

bombastic, flatulent, fustian, gaseous, gassy, grandiloquent, oratorical, rhetorical (also rhetoric), windy

Words Related to orotund

bloated, elevated, florid, flowery, grandiose, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-flown, high-sounding, inflated, lofty, ornate, pompous, pontifical, pretentious, stilted, tumid, turgid

overdone, verbose, wordy

Near Antonyms of orotund

eloquent, well-spoken

bald, direct, matter-of-fact, plain, plainspoken, simple, stark, straightforward, unadorned, unaffected, unpretentious

Antonyms of orotund

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