Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Somewhat round.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Somewhat round; nearly round; inclining to roundness: as, a roundish seed or leaf.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Somewhat round.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Somewhat
round .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective somewhat round in appearance or form
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Examples
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Mine are always kind of roundish; no matter how hard I clip and trim and poke.
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The short "roundish" legs finished, they had still to make the head.
Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun Mabel C. Hawley
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I feel nothing; the nothingness I feel is complete, roundish, and heavy, not entirely shapeless.
Now or Something Very Similar Jason Lee Miller 2011
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Please continue ... the Flat Earth society still exists today (no kidding), with staggering opposition to evidence that our Earth is, indeed, roundish.
'Tea Party Express' trucks on with tour aimed at health care 2009
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Simply hold two large roundish stones in each hand and think of how competent and comfortable you feel.
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Any doctor who agreed to put eight embryos in the uterus of a woman – any woman, much less one with a proven history of successful pregnancy – should have his license taken away and maybe be hung up by his toes, or some other small, roundish, dangly bit.
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One puzzling inaccuracy pervades the prints in this show, including those by the usually reliable Sadahide: While the Caucasian men are depicted sporting racial markers like facial hair, roundish eyes and broad gestures, the women invariably have Asian features.
How Japan Saw Us Lee Lawrence 2010
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Any doctor who agreed to put eight embryos in the uterus of a woman – any woman, much less one with a proven history of successful pregnancy – should have his license taken away and maybe be hung up by his toes, or some other small, roundish, dangly bit.
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Simply hold two large roundish stones in each hand and think of how competent and comfortable you feel.
Anthropologist Argues that Modern Humans Are Wimps » E-Mail 2009
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Once upon a time, before our rocky, roundish moon became tidally locked, tidal bulges also swept continually across its surface, tracking the shifting position and pull of Earth.
When the moon hits your eye, it's always the same old scene 2010
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