Roundabout \Round"a*bout`\, a.
1. Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
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We have taken a terrible roundabout road. --Burke.
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2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound,
roundabout sense." --Locke.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Roundabout \Round"a*bout`\, n.
1. A large horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden
horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round; a
carousel. [British] --Smart.
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2. A dance performed in a circle. --Goldsmith.
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3. A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
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4. A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor
and vicissitude. --Cowper.
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5. a traffic circle. [Chiefly British]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
roundabout
adj 1: marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct;
"the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a
roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that
her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" [syn: circuitous]
2: deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious
route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat";
"a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: devious,
circuitous]
n 1: a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a
central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the
rotary" [syn: traffic circle, circle, rotary]
2: large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride
on [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, whirligig]
WordNet (r) 2.0
181 Moby Thesaurus words for "roundabout":
Byzantine, Ferris wheel, O-shaped, ambages, ambagious, ambient,
anfractuous, apparent, backhanded, balled up, bypass, carousel,
chubby, chute-the-chutes, chutes, circling, circuit, circuitous,
circular, circumambages, circumambient, circumbendibus,
circumferential, circumflex, circumfluent, circumfluous,
circumjacent, circumlocution, circumlocutional, circumlocutory,
collateral, complex, complicated, confounded, confused, convoluted,
convolutional, cortical, crabbed, daedal, detour, deviating,
deviation, deviative, devious, digression, digressive, discursive,
disk, elaborate, embracing, embrangled, encircling, enclosing,
encompassing, enfolding, entangled, enveloping, environing,
epidermic, evasive, excursion, excursive, exomorphic, exterior,
external, extrinsic, flexuose, flexuous, flying horses, fouled up,
fringe, helical, implicated, indirect, intricate, involute,
involuted, involutional, involved, jaunt, junket, knotted,
labyrinthian, labyrinthine, long, loused up, many-faceted, matted,
mazy, meandering, meandrous, merry-go-round, messed up, mixed up,
mucked up, multifarious, neighboring, oblique, open, orbital, out,
out-of-the-way, outer, outermost, outing, outlying, outmost,
outside, outstanding, outward, outward-facing, peripheral,
periphrase, periphrasis, periphrastic, perplexed, pleonasm, plump,
podgy, public, pudgy, ramified, redundancy, rivose, rivulose,
roller, roller coaster, rolling stone, roly-poly, rotary, rotator,
rotor, round, round trip, roundabout way, ruffled, runaround,
rundle, sally, screwed up, seeming, seesaw, serpentine, sinuate,
sinuose, sinuous, snaky, snarled, spiral, subtle, suburban,
superficial, surface, surrounding, swing, tangled, tangly,
tautology, teeter-totter, top, torsional, tortile, tortuous,
traffic circle, tubby, turning, twisted, twisting, twisty,
verbality, wheel, whip, whirlabout, whirler, whirligig, whorled,
winding, wrapping, wreathlike, wreathy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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