Word Meanings - ROUNDABOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke. 2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense." Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROUNDABOUT)

• Devious
• Tortuous
• circuitous
• untracked
• trackless
• pathless
• ambagious
• roundabout
• distorted

Related words: (words related to ROUNDABOUT)

• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• PATHLESS
  Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.
• DISTORTIVE
  Causing distortion.
• DEVIOUS
  1. Out of a straight line; winding; varying from directness; as, a devious path or way. 2. Going out of the right or common course; going astray; erring; wandering; as, a devious step. Syn. -- Wandering; roving; rambling; vagrant. -- De"vi*ous*ly,
• DISTORTION
  An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity. (more info) 1. The act of distorting, or twisting out of natural or regular shape; a twisting or writhing motion; as, the distortions of the face or
• DISTORTER
  One who, or that which, distorts.
• DISTORT
  Distorted; misshapen. Her face was ugly and her mouth distort. Spenser.
• TORTUOUS
  Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely. Skeat. Infortunate ascendent tortuous. Chaucer. --Tor"tu*ous*ly, adv. -- Tor"tu*ous*ness, n. (more info) winding, fr. torquere,
• TRACKLESS
  Having no track; marked by no footsteps; untrodden; as, a trackless desert. To climb the trackless mountain all unseen. Byron. -- Track"less*ly, adv.-Track"less*ness, n.
• AMBAGIOUS
  Circumlocutory; circuitous.
• ROUNDABOUT
  1. Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech. We have taken a terrible roundabout road. Burke. 2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense." Locke.