Synonymer

Uttal

  • Uttal

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Definitioner

Adjektiv

  1. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
  2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

Substantiv

  1. (chiefly UK, New Zealand and Australia) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island
  2. (chiefly British) A children's play apparatus, often found in parks, which rotates around a central axis when pushed.
  3. A fairground carousel.
  4. A detour
  5. A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.

Exempel

  • [S]he fled, running like a deer, doubling and turning through alleys and back streets until by a very roundabout road she reached her own room.
  • "Really, Bill, I think your best plan would be to go straight to father and tell him the whole thing.—You don't want him to hear about it in a roundabout way."
  • Mr. Rather flew to the area in a roundabout fashion, first landing in Bahrain, from there flying to Islamabad and then heading to Kabul by land.
  • Descartes is compelled to fall back upon a curious roundabout argument to prove that there is a world. He must first prove that God exists, and then argue that God would not deceive us into thinking that it exists when it does not.
  • The third sort is of those who readily and sincerely follow reason, but for want of having that which one may call a large, sound, roundabout sense, have not a full view of all that relates to the question.
  • roundabout way
  • roundabout ways

Böjningsformer

Pluralroundabouts
Komparativmore roundabout
Superlativmost roundabout

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