'Roundabout' definitions:
Definition of 'roundabout'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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, roundabout]
adjective
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, roundabout]
noun
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, roundabout]
noun
A large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement [syn: carousel, carrousel, merry-go-round, roundabout, whirligig]
Definition of 'Roundabout'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Roundabout'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'roundabout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambages,
- ambagious,
- ambient,
- anfractuous,
- apparent,
- backhanded,
- balled up,
- bypass,
- Byzantine,
- 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,
- Ferris wheel,
- 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,
- O-shaped,
- 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