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rotund

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of rotund

1 having an excess of body fat
  • The costume made him appear rotund, perfect for his role as Santa Claus.
Synonyms of rotund

blubbery, chubby, corpulent, fat, fleshy, full, obese, overweight, plump, 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

flabby, soft
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

anorexic
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, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, reverberative, round, sonorous, vibrant
Words Related to rotund

deep, full, mellifluous, mellow, rich

loud, powerful, stentorian, thundering, thunderous
Near Antonyms of rotund

cavernous, hollow

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

thin, tinny

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