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roundish

American  
[roun-dish] / ˈraʊn dɪʃ /

adjective

  1. somewhat round.

    a roundish man; roundish furniture.


roundish British  
/ ˈraʊndɪʃ /

adjective

  1. somewhat round

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Origin of roundish

First recorded in 1535–45; round 1 + -ish 1

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“We have roundish brains,” said Philipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2018

As I recall, you couldn’t quite stand upright in it without banging your head on the ceiling; and the front door was this roundish little hobbit door that required you to stoop over to enter.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2018

F-Pace stands out from a sea of crossovers Jaguar’s approach to the grille centers around a roundish rectangle form.

From The Verge • Jul. 24, 2017

Flesh inside the cracked opened shells was examined by clammers who hoped to find roundish, calcifications that had formed over little grains of sand.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2015

But the main ware was something else, something flat, roundish and white.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

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