orotund
Adjective
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Adjective
orotund
- Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
- Pompous; bombastic.
- 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
- In orotund turns of phrase--indeed, in spiraling helices of phrase; in snarled fishing lines of phrase; in endless small intestines of phrase--the speakers ingeniously explored and invented connections between qwerty, alphabetical filing, and socioeconomic advance.
- 1990, Robert Klitgaard, Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
- (fullness of sound) sonorous; see also Thesaurus:sonorous
- (pompous) pompous; see also Thesaurus:arrogant
- German: volltönig, sonor
- German: geschwollen, bombastisch, pompös
- Spanish: altisonante, grandilocuente, pomposo, bombástico, rimbombante , hueco, altílocuo, altilocuente, altísono
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