rotund

[US]/rə(ʊ)'tʌnd/
[UK]/ro'tʌnd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj.sonorous;plump

Phrases & Collocations

a rotund figure

a rotund face

a rotund belly

a rotund appearance

Example Sentences

huge stoves held great rotund cauldrons.

a rotund character in the story

a rotund silhouette against the sunset

the rotund chef prepared a delicious meal

the rotund cat curled up on the couch

a rotund vase on the mantelpiece

her laughter was loud and rotund

Real-world Examples

They're furry, rotund, and famous for their rumored weather forecasting skills.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American March 2023 Collection

If I was Brazilian, no problem, but the Irish in me makes me more probably rotund, let's say round, than anything else.

Source: American English dialogue

Shortly afterwards came Liebard, the farmer of Toucques, short, rotund and ruddy, wearing a grey jacket and spurred boots.

Source: A simple heart.

And then I read the part and it was to play someone who was like rotund, cigar smoking Jack Black.

Source: GQ — Representative Roles of Celebrities

This rotund, barrel-like belly is on full display in the early herbivorous pelycosaur Cotylorhynchus, whose body dwarfed its tiny head.

Source: PBS Earth - Animal Fun Facts

Dick arose and paced the floor earnestly, a small, active, already rotund young man, his hands thrust unnaturally into his bulging pockets.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate.

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

From the tenement windows leaned rotund, moon-shaped mothers, as constellations of this sordid heaven; women like dark imperfect jewels, women like vegetables, women like great bags of abominably dirty laundry.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

At seven o'clock Kalliopitch produced the inevitable supper of cold hash, and at nine the high striped feather-bed received their rotund little bodies in its soft embrace, and a calm, untroubled sleep soon descended upon their eyelids.

Source: Virgin Land (Part 1)

This rotund hill of trees and brambles, standing in the centre of a ploughed field of some ninety or a hundred acres, was probably visited less frequently than a rock would have been visited in a lake of equal extent.

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

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