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1. (adj) bombastic, declamatory, large, orotund, tumid, turgid
ostentatiously lofty in style
"a man given to large talk"; "tumid political prose"

2. (adj) orotund, rotund, round, pear-shaped
(of sounds) full and rich
"orotund tones"; "the rotund and reverberating phrase"; "pear-shaped vowels"

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