orotund
Plural: orotunds
Adjective Satellite
- ostentatiously lofty in style
- (of sounds) full and rich
- "orotund tones"
Adj
- Of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound; hence, of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice, appropriate for public speaking, reading aloud, etc.
- Of writing, etc.: clear, effective, powerful.
- Of speech or writing: bombastic, pompous.
Noun
- A voice characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound.
- The quality of clarity, effectiveness, and power in speech or writing.
Adjective
- Characterized by a full, clear, and resonant voice or sound.
Examples
- His OROTUND declaration of a seven-letter word echoed triumphantly across the Scrabble table.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
*h₁óh₃s
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin ōre rotundō (“with a round mouth; hence, clear; loud”) (whence English ore rotundo), possibly influenced by rotund (“having a curved, round, or spherical shape; (figurative) of sound: full and rich”). Ōre rotundō is composed of ōre (the ablative singular of ōs (“mouth”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óh₃s (“mouth”)) + rotundō (the ablative singular of rotundus (“circular, round”) (possibly from rota (“wheel”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to run”)) + -undus (suffix forming adjectives)).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Synonyms
bombastic, declamatory, large, pear-shaped, rotund, round, tumid, turgid, boom-boom, booming, canorous, grandiloquent, magniloquent, ore rotundo, orotund, remugient, resonant, resounding, reverberant, sonoral, sonorous, tympanic, vibrant
Scrabble Score: 8
orotund: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordorotund: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
orotund: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary