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rotund

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of rotund

1 having an excess of body fat

a rotund little man who, predictably, was asked to play Santa every year

Synonyms of rotund

blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, gross, lardy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy [chiefly British], portly, pudgy, replete, roly-poly, round, tubby

Words Related to rotund

beefy, bulky, chunky, heavy, heavyset, plumpish, stocky, stout, thick, thickset, weighty

brawny, burly, hefty, husky

dumpy, squat, stubby

hippy, paunchy, potbellied

ample, buxom, corn-fed, ripe, zaftig (also zoftig)

Near Antonyms of rotund

angular, bony (also boney), gaunt, lank, lanky, rawboned, sinewy

cadaverous, emaciated, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted

puny, scraggy, scrawny, slight

rangy, reedy, spindling, spindly, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, waspish, weedy, willowy

Antonyms of rotund

lean, skinny, slender, slim, spare, thin

2 marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones

the actor's distinct baritone and his clear and rotund elocution are especially effective in dramatic readings

Synonyms of rotund

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

Words Related to rotund

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

loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous

Near Antonyms of rotund

cavernous, hollow

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

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