rotund

[ roh-tuhnd ]

adjective

1. round in shape; rounded:

   ripe, rotund fruit.

2. plump; fat.

   Synonyms: portly, stout, corpulent, fleshy, obese

3. full-toned or sonorous:

   rotund speeches.

rotund

/ rəʊˈtʌnd /

adjective

1. rounded or spherical in shape
2. plump
3. sonorous or grandiloquent; full in tone, style of speaking, etc

Derived Forms

• roˈtundity, noun
• roˈtundly, adverb

Other Words From

• ro·tundly adverb
• subro·tund adjective
• subro·tundly adverb
• subro·tundness noun
• unro·tund adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of rotund¹

1695–1705; < Latin rotundus round, circular, derivative of rota wheel; round ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of rotund¹

C18: from Latin rotundus wheel-shaped, round, from rota wheel

Example Sentences

Long lines have formed outside Olympics merchandise stores in Beijing, with some people camping overnight to snag the rotund panda plushie—only to find that it has sold out for the day.

From Quartz

These horned animals stood on long legs, unlike their rotund cousins you’d see on a farm today.

From Popular-Science

To rebuild neural circuits, neurons constantly monitor the status of their neighbors through sinewy branches that sprout from a rotund body.

From Singularity Hub 

If Mike Huckabee runs for president in 2016, he could deliver the Republican nomination to a telegenic, rotund governor.

From The Daily Beast

The rotund rapper pled guilty to not paying taxes from 2007 to 2008.

From The Daily Beast

The surprise choice was the gregarious rotund 77-year-old patriarch of Venice.

From The Daily Beast

Bilbo (like most Hobbits) is supposed to be rotund, and Bilbo is said to be more than 50 years old.

From The Daily Beast

Perched next to the officers was a rotund thirty-nine-year-old writer with thick wire-rim glasses named Abbott Joseph Liebling.

From The Daily Beast

She stood looking at him as he danced around the bag, busily punching its rotund sides.

From Project Gutenberg

A little beyond these three hippopotami floated in the water, only the upper parts of their heads and rotund bodies being visible.

From Project Gutenberg

Wrecked freighters from Saturn or Earth floated beside rotund grain-boats from Jupiter.

From Project Gutenberg

A little rotund individual, smiling, lets me know that he has seen a number of my pictures.

From Project Gutenberg

There is a rotund, porpoise-shaped globular gentleman known of these parts as 'Bim the Button Man.'

From Project Gutenberg