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roundabout 音标拼音: [r'ɑʊndəb ,ɑʊt] a. 绕道的,转弯抹角的,间接的 绕道的,转弯抹角的,间接的 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" [ synonym: { circuitous}, { roundabout}] 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" [ synonym: { devious}, { circuitous}, { roundabout}] n 1: a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; " the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary" [ synonym: { traffic circle}, { circle}, { rotary}, { roundabout}] 2: a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement [ synonym: { carousel}, { carrousel}, { merry- go- round}, { roundabout}, { whirligig}] 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. [ 1913 Webster PJC] 2. A dance performed in a circle. -- Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A short, close jacket worn by boys, sailors, etc. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A state or scene of constant change, or of recurring labor and vicissitude. -- Cowper. [ 1913 Webster] 5. a { traffic circle}. [ Chiefly British] [ PJC]
Roundabout \ Round" a* bout`\, a. 1. Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. [ 1913 Webster] We have taken a terrible roundabout road. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. " Large, sound, roundabout sense." -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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