rounded

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊndɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndɪd
• Hyphenation: round‧ed

Verb

rounded

1. simple past and past participle of round

Adjective

rounded (comparative more rounded, superlative most rounded)

1. Made into a circle or sphere.
2. Complete or balanced.
   • 1980 April 5, Aaron Cohen, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

     Her character is much less rounded in the writing, since she has but one goal to fulfill in all of her scenes.

3. (mathematics) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
4. (botany) Ending in a broad arch.
5. (linguistics, of a vowel etc.) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.

   Antonym: unrounded

   The sound /u/ is a rounded vowel.

Derived terms

• rounded down
• roundedness
• rounded up
• rounded vowel
• unrounded
• well-rounded

 

Translations

made into a circle or a sphere

• Finnish: pyöristetty (fi), pyöreä (fi)
• French: arrondi (fr)
• Hungarian: kerekített (hu), kikerekített, lekerekített (hu), legömbölyített (hu)
• Latin: teres
• Macedonian: округлест (okruglest)
• Maori: kōpuku, porokawa, kōpio
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: avrundet (e.g. corners, edges)

• Occitan: arredondit
• Polish: zaokrąglony (pl)

pronounced with the lips drawn together

• Catalan: arrodonit (ca)
• Finnish: pyöreä (fi)
• French: arrondi (fr)
• German: gerundet (de)
• Greek: στρογγυλός (el) (strongylós)
• Hawaiian: mōkio
• Hungarian: ajakkerekítéses, labiális (hu)
• Italian: arrotondato (it)
• Maori: kunekune
• Occitan: arredondit
• Polish: zaokrąglony (pl)
• Spanish: redondeado (es)

Anagrams

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