orotund
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Is orotund a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of orotund?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (by extension)broadly
2. (by extension)Examples: "A series of U.N. and government officials spoke. […] In orotund turns of phrase—indeed, in spiraling helices of phrase; in snarled fishing lines of phrase; in endless small intestines of phrase--the speakers ingeniously explored and invented connections between qwerty, alphabetical filing, and socioeconomic advance."; "He would also, you can't help thinking, have approved [Alan] Hollinghurst's discriminating eye and perhaps even enjoyed the half-facetious, half-adoring tributes Nick pays to his famously orotund late style, the "plums of periphrasis" Nick likes to slip into his conversation."; "When Groucho Marx was once asked a long and orotund question, he replied, "Whom knows?" […] The popularity of "whom" humour tells us two things about the distinction between "who" and "whom". First, "whom" has long been perceived as formal verging on pompous. Second, the rules for its proper use are obscure to many speakers, tempting them to drop "whom" into their speech whenever they want to sound posh."Synonyms: grandiloquent, magniloquent, tumid, turgidbroadlyderogatory
noun (English)
1. (countable) A voice characterized by clarity, fullness, smoothness, and strength of sound.countableobsolete
2. (uncountable) The quality of clarity, effectiveness, and power in speech or writing.obsoleteuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary