rotund

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ro=tund

CIDE DICTIONARY

rotund, a. [L. rotundus. See Round, and cf. Rotunda.].

•  Round; circular; spherical.  [1913 Webster]
•  Hence, complete; entire.  [1913 Webster]
•  orbicular, or nearly so.  Gray.  [1913 Webster]

rotund, n. 

 A rotunda.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

rotund, adj.
1 a circular, round. b (of a person) large and plump, podgy.
2 (of speech, literary style, etc.) sonorous, grandiloquent.

Derivative

rotundity n. rotundly adv.

Etymology

L rotundus f. rotare ROTATE(1)

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

rotund

Rotundity

N rotundity, roundness, cylindricity, sphericity, spheroidity, globosity, cylinder, cylindroid, cylindrical, barrel, drum, roll, roller, rouleau, column, rolling-pin, rundle, cone, conoid, pear shape, egg shape, bell shape, sphere, globe, ball, boulder, bowlder, spheroid, ellipsoid, oblong spheroid, oblate spheroid, prolate spheroid, drop, spherule, globule, vesicle, bulb, bullet, pellet, pelote, clew, pill, marble, pea, knob, pommel, horn, knot (convolution), curved surface, hypersphere, hyperdimensional surface, rotund, round, cylindric, cylindrical, cylindroid, columnar, lumbriciform, conic, conical, spherical, spheroidal, globular, globated, globous, globose, egg shaped, bell shaped, pear shaped, ovoid, oviform, gibbous, rixiform, campaniform, campanulate, campaniliform, fungiform, bead-like, moniliform, pyriform, bulbous, tres atque rotundus, round as an orange, round as an apple, round as a ball, round as a billiard ball, round as a cannon ball.