orotund

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}]
    

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]
    

48 Moby Thesaurus words for "orotund":
      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