roundabout
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4.9
- adjective
- /ˈraʊndəˌbaʊt/
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indirecto
- He took a rather roundabout route to explain his point, making it hard to follow.
- a roundabout way
- very roundabout
It's the weird thing in a roundabout way, it all sort of worked out OK.
- It's the weird thing in a roundabout way, it all sort of worked out OK.
- This man threatened your son with bodily harm in a roundabout way.
- But a roundabout way of answering your question is, I don't get mad.
- And in a roundabout way, some of those thoughts, too, have come about, you know?
- And so it's this weird kind of trying to find this roundabout way to prove that, you know, saturated fat is, is good for you.
- So I don't know that's a roundabout answer, but story transports you.
- So, so that's the way I've, I've sort of come in a roundabout way to focusing on self reference late in recently.
- So it's a, it's a roundabout way of it's a way of transacting something whatever dollar has, dollar has.
- As a child, she found this penchant for roundabout answers frustrating, but in time she realized that the context was the answer.
- But but he did it very elegantly with his elegantly, very, very roundabout in code.
- Overall, it's because we attempt to see it in a sort of roundabout way that it becomes seen.
- We find roundabout ways to ask for things so we can get things done, or so they aren't offended.
Examples
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We find roundabout ways to ask for things so we can get things done, or so they aren't offended.
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Romney's contribution to the Reagan Revolution was nil, as he admitted in a roundabout way to Blitzer.
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So, yeah, sorry, that was a very roundabout sort of approach, but yeah.
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It's the weird thing in a roundabout way, it all sort of worked out OK.
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People do things in these roundabout ways, Like just be direct, you know, just just say what you want to say.
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And in a roundabout way, some of those thoughts, too, have come about, you know?
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But in a roundabout way, I actually ended up asking for consent, which I'm proud of.
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This is a long and roundabout way of saying, "We don't have the facts."
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All of which explains, in an admittedly roundabout fashion, how I come to be in the theater's backstage area in need of a change of clothes.
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Instead of being direct, she often prefers a roundabout way of giving feedback.
Synonyms
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8.4
Taking a longer, indirect way instead of a direct route
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3.5
Taking a longer route that is not straight
Antonyms
Compounds
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6.9
An area around Old Street in East London with many technology companies and new startups
How Indirect
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Etymology
The word roundabout comes from the words round ('in a circle') and about ('around'), so as an adjective it means 'not direct' or 'going around' instead of straight to the point.