roundabout Definition
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roundabout
noun
- (Brit)
1. A circular road junction, usually with an island in the middle, where several roads meet, and around which traffic must travel in the same direction, giving way to vehicles coming from the right.
(Brit)
2. A merry-go-round.
- 1. Not direct; circuitous.
- Example: a roundabout way of explaining something
- Thesaurus: indirect, circuitous, deviating, meandering, oblique, ambiguous, evasive, discursive, tortuous, devious; Antonym: direct, straightforward.
