rotund
adjective
[ rə(ʊ)ˈtʌnd ]
• (of a person) large and plump.
• "her brother was slim where she was rotund"
Similar:
plump,
chubby,
fat,
stout,
roly-poly,
fattish,
portly,
dumpy,
chunky,
broad in the beam,
overweight,
heavy,
pot-bellied,
beer-bellied,
paunchy,
Falstaffian,
buxom,
well upholstered,
well covered,
well padded,
of ample proportions,
ample,
round,
rounded,
well rounded,
full,
flabby,
fleshy,
bulky,
corpulent,
obese,
tubby,
pudgy,
beefy,
porky,
blubbery,
poddy,
podgy,
fubsy,
lard-arsed,
zaftig,
corn-fed,
pursy,
abdominous,
• (of speech or literary style) sonorous; grandiloquent.
Similar:
sonorous,
full-toned,
full-bodied,
round,
rich,
deep,
mellow,
resonant,
reverberant,
magniloquent,
grandiloquent,
orotund,
pear-shaped,
canorous,
Origin:
late 15th century: from Latin rotundus, from rotare ‘rotate’.
