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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. spherical in shape;

2. (of sounds) full and rich;
- Example: "orotund tones"
- Example: "the rotund and reverberating phrase"
- Example: "pear-shaped vowels"
[syn: orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped]

3. excessively fat;
- Example: "a weighty man"
[syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rotund \Ro*tund"\, n. A rotunda. [Obs.] --Burke. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Rotund \Ro*tund"\, a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda.] 1. Round; circular; spherical. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence, complete; entire. [1913 Webster] 3. (Bot.) orbicular, or nearly so. --Gray. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

rotund adj 1: spherical in shape 2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped] 3: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

87 Moby Thesaurus words for "rotund": adipose, arched, beefy, bellied, bellylike, big-bellied, bloated, blowzy, bosomy, bowed, brawny, bulging, burly, buxom, chubby, chunky, circular, consonant, convex, convexed, corpulent, crummy, deep, distended, dumpy, excurvate, excurvated, excurved, fat, fattish, fleshy, full, gibbose, gibbous, globular, gross, heavy, heavyset, hefty, hippy, humped, imposing, lusty, meaty, mellow, obese, orbicular, orotund, out-bowed, overweight, paunchy, plangent, plump, podgy, portly, potbellied, pudgy, puffy, pursy, resonant, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roly-poly, round, rounded, rounded out, sonorous, spherical, square, squat, squatty, stalwart, stocky, stout, strapping, stubby, swollen, thick, thick-bodied, thickset, top-heavy, tubby, vibrant, well-fed