Meaning

2 senses
  1. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.

    umständlich, verschleiert

    непрямо́йneprjamój, око́льныйokólʹnyj, окружно́йokružnój

  2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

    allumfassend, übergreifend, universal

More definitions
  • marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct
  • deviating from a straight course

Examples

31 sentences
  1. Don't say it in a roundabout way.

    ruНе говори обиняками. — sharptoothed

    deSage es nicht auf Umwegen. — Manfredo

  2. Tom does everything in such a roundabout way.

    ruТом вечно ходит вокруг да около. — sharptoothed

  3. He lost control of the car at a roundabout and it flipped.

    Він не впорався з керуванням на кільцевому перехресті, і машина перекинулася. — Ahha

  4. Sami was driving through the roundabout.

  5. Yanni went to that huge roundabout.

Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
circuitous:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
circuitous:
comprehensive:

Origin

From round + about [from early 20th c.].

From round + about [from early 20th c.].

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Forms

more roundabout, most roundabout
Comparativemore roundabout Lesson
Superlativemost roundabout Lesson

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
roundabout — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto