ROUNDISH Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

roundish

adjective

Definition of roundish

as in bulbous

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nonspherical

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Recent Examples of roundish Overall, the design language shifts from squarish to roundish and more curvy, presenting a silhouette closer to a human figure, at least from the front. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2025 The wrappers don’t have to be a perfect circle, just roundish. — Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Jan. 2025 In the map created for the 2022 film, Gotham is three islands that are almost roundish, jagged circles connected by bridges, so the Tricorner Bridge is kind of like the Brooklyn Bridge, but not quite. — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 20 Sep. 2024 Eventually this network consolidates into roundish blobs, and two distinct phases arise—one enriched with LAT and the other with very little LAT but lots of other proteins. — Trevor Grandpre, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2024 See All Example Sentences for roundish

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Adjective

There are the Vamps, inflated shoes born of the puffy Y2K lineage of skate classics like Osirises or Etnies, taken to theatrical levels of bulbous.

— Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026
From his breakout starring role in 1975’s cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Curry brought his bulbous eyes and madcap energy to every performance.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of bulbous

Adjective

Spherical Link Design and Modular Cable Routing The foundation of the Robotrax system lies in its open, single-piece plastic links featuring spherical snap-on connections on both sides.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 3 Sep. 2026
The spherical structure, featuring a monolithic gyroid design, was 3D printed from silicon carbide.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of spherical

Adjective

Central midfielders may do the most rounded job on a football pitch, but in the 2020s, the number of different areas that full-backs have to occupy has grown to a level beyond most of their team-mates.

— Art de Roché, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026
Chinese pistache has a rounded crown and can grow to 35 feet high and 20 or 30 feet wide, a compact size suited to planting along a patio or driveway.

— Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2026

Definition of rounded

Adjective

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this twinkling image of NGC 6723, or the Chandelier Cluster, a globular star cluster located 27,000 light-years away in our Milky Way galaxy.

— Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 21 Aug. 2026
The pieces are abstract but appear to show featureless human figures sitting atop globular, cloud-like shapes that float in the air.

— Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 7 June 2026

Definition of globular

Adjective

The comedy of Gilligan’s Island often centered on the interactions between the scrawny, clueless Gilligan and the rotund, impatient skipper.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2026
Natalia, again fearing a trap, hesitated to disembark—until the dawn light revealed the smiling face of the rotund Diego Rivera, flanked by Mexican Trotskyists and government officials.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 July 2026

Definition of rotund

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