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orotund
[awr-uh-tuhnd, ohr-] 
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orotund
[awr-uh-tuhnd, ohr-]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ostentatious |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, clear, loud, pompous, resonant, resounding, rich, showy, sonorous, stentorian |
| Main Entry: | grandiloquent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pretentious, flowery (communication) |
| Synonyms: | aureate, big-talking, bombastic, declamatory, euphistic, fustian, high-flown, histrionic, inflated, magniloquent, oratorical, orotund, overblown, pompous, purple*, rhetorical, sonorous, swollen, tall-talking, verbose, windbag, windy |
| Notes: | grandiloquent means lofty in style, pompous, or bombastic; magniloquent means lofty and extravagant in speech |
| Antonyms: | plain, simple, unadorned, unpretentious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pompous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | arrogant, egotistic |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
| Antonyms: | dull, modest, plain, simple, unassuming |
| Main Entry: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous |
| Antonyms: | faint, quiet |
| Main Entry: | round |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant, rich in sound |
| Synonyms: | consonant, full, mellifluous, orotund, plangent, resounding, ringing, rotund, sonorous, vibrant |
| Antonyms: | low, soft, weak |
| Main Entry: | sweet |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nice-sounding |
| Synonyms: | dulcet, euphonic, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluous, mellow, melodic, melodious, musical, orotund, rich, rotund, silver-tongued, silvery, smooth, soft, sonorous, soothing, sweet-sounding, tuneful |
| Antonyms: | cacophonous, discordant, ugly |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
| Synonyms: | bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, elocutionary, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, gesticulative, gesturing, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, intoning, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, senatorial, stagy, stentorian, stylistic, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid |
| Antonyms: | natural, simple, undramatic |
| Main Entry: | turgid |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bombastic |
| Synonyms: | grandiloquent, grandiose, inflated, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, pompous, pretentious, stuffy, tumid |
| Antonyms: | humble, modest, quiet, reserved, self-effacing |
| Main Entry: | stentorian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very loud |
| Synonyms: | blaring, loud, orotund, resounding, sonorous |
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