roundabout

Meaning

Adj

1. Indirect, circuitous, or circumlocutionary.
2. Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive.

Noun

1. (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New-Zealand, UK, US, sometimes) A road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island.
2. (British) A horizontal wheel which rotates around a central axis when pushed and on which children ride, often found in parks as a children's play apparatus.
3. A fairground carousel.
4. A detour.
5. A short, close-fitting coat or jacket worn by men or boys, especially in the 19th century.
6. (archaic) A round dance.

Verb

1. To play on a roundabout (carousel)
2. To travel round roundabouts
3. To talk in a roundabout, indirect manner

Synonyms

indirect

circuitous

merry-go-round

carousel

traffic circle

rotary

devious

circle

⭕

carrousel

whirligig

winding

ambagious

circumlocution

oblique

euphemistic

circumlocutory

detour

lengthy

long

long-winded

mealymouthed

mediate

on the other side

orbital

outer

peregrine

peripheral

periphrastic

plump

prolix

redundant

rotatory

roundabout traffic

roving

second hand

sinuous

sinuously

spiral

summerhouse

surface

tortuous

vagabond

vagrant

verbose

vicarious

voluble

wander

wordy

circumlocutious

roundabout way

Translations

rond-point

giostra

Karussell

rotonda

rotonda

rotatoria

tiovivo

manège

carrefour giratoire

Kreisverkehr

carrossel

tortuoso

rotonda

cavallets

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɹaʊndəˌbaʊt/

Etymology

From round + about [from early 20th c.].