roundabout
[ adjective round-uh-bout, round-uh-bout; noun round-uh-bout ]SEE DEFINITION OF roundaboutEXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR ROUNDABOUT
Then by a roundabout route they started on their return to the car.
This is ingenious, but her proof, after that, is (as she candidly admits) "clumsy and roundabout."
But in a roundabout way I did get some news as to what happened.
Before the night was out, however, I had gone to work in a roundabout way.
What need of this roundabout, mysterious mode of communicating?
I looked over the room as I pulled on the roundabout borrowed of Roy.
No, I don't know any more than you do—maybe it's some roundabout way.
"It does seem rather a roundabout way of rejoining," Terence said, with a smile.
"Well, I've agreed to stand for Harsh," said Nick with a roundabout transition.
Did he know, I wondered, and was this all a roundabout way of telling me that he knew?
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR ROUNDABOUT
crooked
adjectivebent, angled- agee
- anfractuous
- angular
- asymmetric
- awry
- bowed
- catawampus
- circuitous
- cockeyed
- contorted
- crippled
- curved
- curving
- deformed
- deviating
- devious
- disfigured
- distorted
- errant
- gnarled
- hooked
- incurving
- indirect
- irregular
- kinky
- knurly
- lopsided
- meandering
- misshapen
- not straight
- oblique
- out of shape
- rambling
- roundabout
- screwy
- serpentine
- sinuous
- skewed
- slanted
- snaky
- spiral
- tilted
- topsy-turvy
- tortile
- tortuous
- twisted
- twisting
- uneven
- warped
- winding
- zigzag
devious
adjectivecrooked; indirectepisodic
adjectiveintermittent; composed of several talesjaunt
nounexpeditionmeandrous
adjectivewindingoblique
adjectiveindirect, evasiveouting
nounshort tripRoget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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