Synonyms of round in English:

round

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See Spanish definition of redondo

adjective

1‘a small round window’

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circular, disc-shaped, disc-like

ring-shaped, hoop-shaped, hooplike, annular

spherical, globular, ball-shaped, globe-shaped, orb-shaped, orblike, cylindrical, bulbous, bulb-shaped, balloon-like

convex, curved, curvilinear, rounded, rotund

technical cycloidal, discoid, discoidal, spheroid, spheroidal

rare globate, globose, orbicular, orbiculate

2‘a short round man with a loud voice’

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plump, chubby, fat, stout, rotund, roly-poly, fattish, portly, dumpy, chunky, broad in the beam, overweight, heavy, pot-bellied, beer-bellied, paunchy, Falstaffian

buxom, well upholstered, well covered, well padded, of ample proportions, ample, rounded, well rounded, full

flabby, fleshy, bulky, corpulent, obese

informal tubby, pudgy, beefy, porky, blubbery, poddy

British informal podgy, fubsy, lard-arsed

North American informal zaftig, corn-fed

archaic pursy

rare abdominous

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thin, slender, skinny

3‘his deep, round voice went down well with the listeners’

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sonorous, resonant, rich, full, full-toned, full-bodied, mellow, mellifluous, rounded, reverberant, orotund

rare pear-shaped, canorous

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harsh, thin, reedy

4‘a round dozen’

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complete, entire, whole, full, undivided, unbroken

5‘she berated him in round terms’

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candid, frank, direct, honest, truthful, straightforward, plain, plain-spoken, blunt, outspoken, forthright, downright, unvarnished, bald, straight from the shoulder, explicit, unequivocal

informal upfront, not pulling any punches, not beating about the bush

archaic free-spoken

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evasive

preposition

1‘there's a maze of alleys round the station’

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around, about, encircling, enclosing

near, in the neighbourhood of, in the vicinity of, in the area of

orbiting

2‘casinos dotted round the south of France’

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throughout, all over, here and there in, everywhere in

noun

1‘divide the dough into 2 oz pieces and mould into rounds’

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circle, disc, circlet

ring, hoop, band

ball, sphere, globe, orb, bead

technical annulus

2‘the local policeman was on his rounds’

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circuit, beat, course, route

tour, turn

3‘the first round of the World 500cc championship’

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stage, level

heat, game, lap, bout, contest

4‘an endless round of late-night parties’

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succession, sequence, series, cycle

5‘the gun can fire 30 rounds a second’

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bullet, cartridge, shell, shot

verb

1‘the ship rounded the point’

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go round, move round, travel round, sail round, circumnavigate

orbit

skirt

Phrases

round the bend

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mad, insane, out of one's mind, deranged, demented, not in one's right mind, certifiable, of unsound mind, crazed, lunatic, unbalanced, unhinged, unstable, disturbed, frenzied, raving, distraught, mad as a hatter, mad as a March hare

non compos mentis

informal crazy, mental, off one's head, out of one's head, off one's nut, nuts, nutty, nutty as a fruitcake, off one's rocker, not right in the head, not quite right in the head, raving mad, bats, bonkers, cuckoo, loopy, loony, bananas, loco, dippy, screwy, touched, gaga, not all there, out to lunch, not right upstairs

British informal barmy, batty, crackers, barking, barking mad, doolally, round the twist, off one's trolley, as daft as a brush, not the full shilling, up the pole, two sandwiches short of a picnic, away with the fairies

North American informal buggy, off the wall, nutsy, nutso, out of one's tree, meshuga, squirrelly, wacko, gonzo

Canadian, Australian, New Zealand informal bushed

New Zealand informal porangi

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sane

round something off

1‘the square edges were rounded off’

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smooth off, plane off, sand off, level off

2‘the annual Christmas party rounded off a hugely successful year for the company’

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complete, finish off, crown, cap, top off, conclude, close, bring to a close, bring to a end, end

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begin

round about

‘he earns round about £40,000 a year’

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approximately, about, around, roughly, in the neighbourhood of, in the area of, of the order of, just about, something like, more or less, as near as dammit to, close to, near to, practically

or so, or thereabouts, there or thereabouts, give or take a few, plus or minus a few, give or take a bit, in round numbers

not far off, nearly, almost, approaching

British getting on for

South African plus-minus

circa

North American informal in the ballpark of

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precisely, exactly

round someone or something up

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gather together, herd together, drive together, bring together, muster, marshal, rally, assemble, collect, group

North American corral, wrangle

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disperse, scatter

round the clock

1‘I've got a team working round the clock’

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day and night, night and day, all the time, morning, noon, and night, the entire time, continuously, non-stop, uninterruptedly, without interruption, without a break, steadily, unremittingly

informal all the hours God sends, 24, 7

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intermittently

2‘she needs round-the-clock supervision’

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continuous, constant, non-stop, continual, uninterrupted, without interruption, unbroken, steady

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intermittent

round on

‘Guido rounded on Rosie, as though she were to blame’

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snap at, attack, turn on, set upon, weigh into, fly at, let fly at, lash out at, hit out at, lambast