round-shouldered
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4.8
- adjective
- /ˈraʊndˌʃoʊldərd/
:
encorvado
- Despite being round-shouldered, he still managed to participate actively in sports.
- a round-shouldered man
Examples
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While the woman spoke, the girl was lost in seeing her father, a pale and slight, round-shouldered man, with thinning hair, with heavy lines from nose to mouth and eyes that would not meet her own.
Fiction book (1990) -
He watched a round-shouldered old man with shining silver whiskers drag sedately on his water pipe.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm round-shouldered from carrying it around, Tony.
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Nurse says I'm round-shouldered, and she puts me on it whenever she can.
Fiction book (1994) -
One was a huge, round-shouldered hulk wearing a fedora.
Fiction book (1993) -
They stepped past a round-shouldered black man as he unloaded split wood from a cart onto the boardwalk out front.
Fiction book (2002) -
Round-shouldered, short, thick-set—he looked exactly like a raven with his coarse black hair, his prominent nose, and his long, cleanshaven face.
Fiction book (2000) -
Clumped men in colorful shirts smoked cigarettes and gossiped, while round-shouldered women who saw through their pose of ease bartered necessities back and forth, one eye on the romping children.
Fiction book (2001) -
He was a small man in his sixties, round-shouldered, balding, with sad blue eyes behind rimless bifocals and a severely trimmed mustache under a button nose.
Fiction book (1994) -
The round-shouldered boy slouched in his chair, trying to avoid attention from his classmates.
Synonyms
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7.7
A person with a curved back so the shoulders bend forward
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4.1
Having a rounded back and shoulders because you bend forward
Having a rounded back and shoulders, not straight
A person with a curved back and shoulders that lean forward when standing or walking
A person with a bent back and shoulders who does not stand straight
How Slouched
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Round-shouldered comes from the simple parts round and shoulder, and it pictures someone who is 'round' at the top of the back. So, it means having the shoulders and upper back curved or bent forward.