Roundabout
['raʊndəbaʊt]
Definition
(a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
(a.) Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.
(n.) A horizontal wheel or frame, commonly with wooden horses, etc., on which children ride; a merry-go-round.
(n.) A dance performed in a circle.
(n.) A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc.
(n.) A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude.
Checker: Rita
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Indirect, tortuous, circuitous.[2]. [Rare.] That looks on all sides, not narrow, not one-sided.
Checker: Nanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing a roundabout, denotes that you will struggle unsuccessfully to advance in fortune or love.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- You did not see it because I led you not in the beaten tracks, but through roundabout passages seldom used. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- His usual roundabout manner of going to work proved, on this occasion, to be more roundabout than ever. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I have had some experience, Fosco, of your roundabout ways, and I am not so sure that you won't worm it out of me after all. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Some of our party have gone to England, intending to take a roundabout course and rejoin the vessel at Leghorn or Naples several weeks hence. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Is it necessary for me to use any roundabout phrase? Jane Austen. Emma.
- Then we tried to get it by all kinds of roundabout ways, but in no case could anybody get them at that office. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But you are not so roundabout, Little Eyes, that I don't notice your answering for Pubsey and Co. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It'll lead in a roundabout manner to your buying damage and waste of Pubsey and Co. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I say to my great relief, because I inferred that Laura must, for some unknown reason, have returned before me by this roundabout way. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is a roundabout wheedling sort of thing which I should not have credited you with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Tabitha