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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Gongoresque, Johnsonian, affected, bedizened, big-sounding, convoluted, declamatory, elevated, euphuistic, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, fulsome, garish, gaudy, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high-flowing, high-flown, high-flying, high-sounding, highfalutin, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, lurid, magniloquent, meretricious, ostentatious, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pedantic, pompous, pretentious, rhetorical, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, sonorous, stilted, tall, tortuous
Dictionary Results for orotund:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
orotund
    adj 1: ostentatiously lofty in style; "a man given to large
           talk"; "tumid political prose" [syn: bombastic,
           declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid]
    2: (of sounds) full and rich; "orotund tones"; "the rotund and
       reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels" [syn: orotund,
       rotund, round, pear-shaped]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Orotund \O"ro*tund`\, a. [L. os, oris, the mouth + rotundus
   round, smooth.]
   Characterized by fullness, clearness, strength, and
   smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or
   manner of utterance. -- n. The orotund voice or utterance
   --Rush.
   [1913 Webster]
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