dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/oro_MWT.json

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{
"orotund":{
"marked by conspicuously full and rich sounds or tones":{
"examples":[
"the tenor's orotund voice was just what this soaring aria needs"
],
"synonyms":[
"golden",
"plangent",
"resonant",
"resounding",
"reverberant",
"reverberating",
"reverberative",
"ringing",
"rotund",
"round",
"sonorous",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deep",
"full",
"mellifluent",
"mellifluous",
"mellow",
"plummy",
"rich",
"loud",
"powerful",
"stentorian",
"thundering",
"thunderous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cavernous",
"hollow",
"faint",
"low",
"murmurous",
"muted",
"smothered",
"soft",
"weak",
"thin",
"tinny"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"marked by the use of impressive-sounding but mostly meaningless words and phrases":{
"examples":[
"a master of the orotund prose that is favored by academic journals of literary criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombastic",
"flatulent",
"fustian",
"gaseous",
"gassy",
"grandiloquent",
"oratorical",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric",
"windy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloated",
"elevated",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiose",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"inflated",
"lofty",
"ornate",
"pompous",
"pontifical",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"overdone",
"verbose",
"wordy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eloquent",
"well-spoken",
"bald",
"direct",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[
"unrhetorical"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
}
}