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round-faced

round-faced

2 3.0
A person or animal with a round face rather than a long thin one
  • adjective
  • /ˈraʊndˌfeɪst/
translation icon : de cara redonda
  • Sarasri, a stout, round-faced woman, hurried from the kitchen, drying her hands on her apron.
  • a round-faced man
  • a round-faced woman
  • a round-faced girl

For instance, with contouring you can make a square face or a round face look like a heart-shaped face.

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Examples

  • We both have very round faces, deep brown eyes, long straight black hair, etcetera.

  • "Peggy, Peggy!" A round-faced girl with honey-colored hair bore something on a tray that was covered with a white linen napkin.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Well, if you have a round face shape, elongating your face will make your face look less round.

  • Since it's earlier, she studied the tiny, round-faced woman, looking like a betrayed child.

    Fiction book (1999)
  • "Really, Charlotte," said a round-faced man wearing a wrinkled blue and green plaid shirt.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • As he sweated his worries away, Twain studied the round-faced young firefighter.

    Blog text (28)
  • In contrast to the lanky Twain, Sawyer, three years older, was stocky and round-faced.

    Blog text (28)
  • In the photos pinned up at Gina's shop, he'd appeared round-faced and cheerful with an easy, good-humored smile.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • Oral was exactly the way Joe remembered him: big-shouldered, round-faced, dove-eyed, in a gray polyester suit with a white shirt and a burgundy tie.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • The round-faced girl smiled as she posed for the camera.

Synonyms

moon-faced
vsround-faced
1 6.4

A person with a round, full face and soft cheeks

focuses only on face shape as rounded rather than angular or oval

How Round

round-faced
2 3.0
long-faced
1 6.2

Surface Forms

round-faced positive

Morphology

round-faced = round + face (transparent) = round + face + ed

The structure is a straightforward combination of 'round' + 'face' with the adjectival '-ed' meaning 'having a ... face', so the sense is directly derivable.

Etymology

The word round-faced comes from the two everyday words round 'curved like a circle' and face 'front of the head', so round-faced describes someone whose face is more circular than long.