Orotund

//ˈɒɹə(ʊ)tʌnd//

Synonyms for "orotund" (90 found)

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Translations

11 translations across 5 languages.

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Bulgarian

2 entries
  • звучен adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)
  • плъ́тен adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)

Finnish

2 entries
  • sointuva adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)
  • sointuvaääninen adj (of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice)

Georgian

1 entries
  • ჟღერადი adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)

German

2 entries
  • sonor adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)
  • volltönig adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)

Macedonian

4 entries
  • зву́чен adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)
  • мило́звучен adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)
  • чист adj (of a voice: characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound)
  • чист adj (of a person: having a clear, full, and strong voice)

Sample sentences

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A series of U.N. and government officials spoke. And spoke. And spoke. Their words were grand, their sentences endless. 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.

Source: wiktionary

He would also, you can't help thinking, have approved [Alan] Hollinghurst's discriminating eye and perhaps even enjoyed the half-facetious, half-adoring tributes Nick pays to his famously orotund late style, the "plums of periphrasis" Nick likes to slip into his conversation.

Source: wiktionary

When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" […] The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom". First, "whom" has long been perceived as formal verging on pompous. Second, the rules for its proper use are obscure to many speakers, tempting them to drop "whom" into their speech whenever they want to sound posh.

Source: wiktionary

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