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again. 2 harshly, unkindly, severely, sternly,
unsympathetically, brutally, violently, savagely, inhumanly,
mercilessly, unmercifully, ruthlessly, pitilessly, cruelly,
heartlessly: The police were accused of dealing too roughly
with those suspected of harming a fellow officer. 3 clumsily,
rudely, crudely, awkwardly, primitively, inexpertly,
amateurishly, maladroitly, heavy-handedly, ineptly,
inefficiently, unskilfully, inartistically: This roughly hewn
block of local granite is what the council paid a fortune for as
'sculpture'.
round adj. 1 circular; disc-shaped, discoid, disc-like: I prefer a
round table to a square one. She made a round motion to
demonstrate the shape. 2 ring-shaped, annular, hoop-shaped,
hoop-like: The track is oval, not round. 3 spherical,
ball-shaped, ball-like, globular, spheroid, spheroidal,
globe-shaped, globelike, globate, orb-shaped, orb-like,
orbicular: You will never convince me that the earth is round -
I know what I see. 4 curved, curvilinear, rounded, arched: The
round chisel is used to cut these grooves. 5 exact, precise,
complete, entire, full: That makes a round hundred times you
have asked me the same question. 6 approximate, rough, rounded
(off or up or down), whole: In round numbers, that makes 40 per
cent For and 60 per cent Against. 7 rounded, mellow, full,
vibrant, reverberant, reverberating, sonorous, rich,
mellifluous, orotund, pear-shaped: Couldn't you listen forever
to those beautiful round tones sung by Fischer-Dieskau? 8 plain,
honest, straightforward, direct, unvarnished, unembellished,
unelaborated, outspoken, candid, truthful, frank, open, blunt,
Colloq upfront: They delivered what they had to say in round,
assertive statements. 9 Chiefly Brit return: We made the round
trip to Bristol in less than three hours.
--n. 10 circle, disc; ring, hoop, annulus; ball, sphere, globe,
orb, bead: The moulding has a repeated pattern of a round
alternating with three vertical grooves. 11 cycle, series,
sequence, succession, bout, spell: The current round of talks
on the economy is expected to last for three days. There was the
usual round of parties on New Year's Eve. 12 Often, rounds.
beat, route, routine, circuit, course, tour, turn, ambit: The
milkman still makes his daily rounds in England. 13 heat,
stage, level, turn: After each round in the tournament, the
losers are eliminated, reducing the competitors by half. 14