Orotund Definition & Meaning

orotund
adjective
  1. ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"
  2. (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"

Words that rhyme with orotund

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