round – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of round

Adjective: round

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativerounder
Superlativeroundest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore round
Superlativemost round

Sample Sentences

  • We sat at a round table to make conversation easier.
  • The flowers glowed red and golden: snapdragons and sunflowers, and nasturtians^([sic]) trailing all over the turf walls and peeping in at the round windows. [1954 July 29, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “A Long-Expected Party”, in The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC:]
  • The ancient Egyptian demonstrated that the Earth is round, not flat.
  • a round belly
  • a round face
  • If I close my eyes I can see Marie today as I saw her then. Round, rosy face, snub nose, dark hair piled up in a chignon. [1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 2, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:]
  • Our child's bed has round corners for safety.
  • He was tall and thin but his wife was short and round.
  • The baker sold us a round dozen.
  • Round was their pace at first, but slackened soon: / A stranger meeting them had surely thought, / They rode so slowly and they look'd so pale, / That each had suffer'd some exceeding wrong. [1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 47:]
  • One hundred is a nice round number.
  • "Supposing somebody sees you, with all those flowers too? Supposing somebody writes him a letter? Ooooh!" (a pure round open Tamil O.) [1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 421:]
  • a round answer
  • a round oath
  • the round assertion [1867, Matthew Arnold, On the Study of Celtic Literature:]
  • Sir Toby, I muſt be round with you. [c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 261, column 2:]
  • Well, she must be plain with him, round with him, while she must not betray her child. [1925, Stanley John Weyman, “XXXVI Home”, in Queen's Folly:]
  • In his satires Horace is quick, round, and[…]pleasant. [1622, Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman:]
  • Round dealing is the honour of man's nature. [1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:]
  • I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum. [1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC:]
  • By raising turkeys the farmers were able the more surely to pay their rents. Young girls often acquired a very sufficient dowry, and towns-folk who wished to eat them had to pay round prices for them. [1854, Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste: Or, Transcendental Gastronomy, page 108:]
  • round trip, round journey, round walk

Adjectives inflected like round

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

From Middle English round, rounde, from Old Northern French roünt, rund, Old French ront, runt, reont ( > French rond), from both Late Latin retundus and the original Latin rotundus. The noun developed partly from the adjective and partly from the corresponding French noun rond. Doublet of rotund. See: French Adjectives 'rond', Latin Adjectives 'rotundus'.

Verbs referencing "round"

Spanish Adjectives redondo, Spanish Adjectives rotundo.