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roundish

American  
[roun-dish] / ˈraʊn dɪʃ /

adjective

  1. somewhat round.

    a roundish man; roundish furniture.


roundish British  
/ ˈraʊndɪʃ /

adjective

  1. somewhat round

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Other Word Forms

  • roundishness noun

Etymology

Origin of roundish

First recorded in 1535–45; round 1 + -ish 1

Example Sentences

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It reached Bennu two years later and, using a long stick vacuum, grabbed rubble from the small roundish space rock in 2020.

From Washington Times • Sep. 24, 2023

“We have roundish brains,” said Philipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018

As I recall, you couldn’t quite stand upright in it without banging your head on the ceiling; and the front door was this roundish little hobbit door that required you to stoop over to enter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2018

F-Pace stands out from a sea of crossovers Jaguar’s approach to the grille centers around a roundish rectangle form.

From The Verge • Jul. 24, 2017

“Try some of this,” Mr. Pignati insisted, holding up a bowl of little roundish things that looked as if they were in a spaghetti sauce.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel