| 单词 | orotund |
| 释义 | orotund (once / 72959 pages) adj If the reviews of your concert describe your singing as orotund, you can pop open the champagne — your reviewers have noticed your full, rich sound. On the other hand, if you've just given a speech and the TV commentators ridicule it as orotund, moralistic, and meaningless, you might want to drop out of sight for a few weeks. You've been called out for your pompous, self-important style. Orotund comes from the Latin word ore, "mouth," and rotundo, "make round." So orotund sounds are what you make with a rounded mouth, which is good if you're singing, but pretentious if you're not. WORD FAMILYorotund: orotundly USAGE EXAMPLESFor all his orotund pandering, in London he spoke to a half-empty hall. Economist(Jul 28, 2016) For the rest of our lives, we’ll hear from gay marriage opponents how orotund this opinion is, how hazy its actual legal rationale is. Slate(Jun 26, 2015) When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" The Guardian(Aug 15, 2014) 1adj ostentatiously lofty in style Syn bombastic, declamatory, large, tumid, turgid rhetorical given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought 2adj (of sounds) full and rich orotund tones Syn pear-shaped, rotund, round full (of sound) having marked deepness and body |
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