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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