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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders" [ant: angular, angulate]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1587 1. made round ; flowing rather than jagged or angular 2. fully developed • roundedness noun

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Round Round, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Rounding.] 1. To make circular, spherical, or cylindrical; to give a round or convex figure to; as, to round a silver coin; to round the edges of anything. Worms with many feet, which round themselves into balls, are bred chiefly under logs of timber. --Bacon. The figures on our modern medals are raised and rounded to a very great perfection. --Addison. 2. To surround; to encircle; to encompass. The inclusive verge Of golden metal that must round my brow. --Shak. 3. To bring to fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. --Shak. 4. To go round wholly or in part; to go about (a corner or point); as, to round a corner; to round Cape Horn. 5. To make full, smooth, and flowing; as, to round periods in writing. --Swift. To round in (Naut.) To haul up; usually, to haul the slack of (a rope) through its leading block, or to haul up (a tackle which hangs loose) by its fall. --Totten. (b) To collect together (cattle) by riding around them, as on cattle ranches

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rounded Round"ed, a. (Phonetics) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect] 11.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Something that is rounded is curved in shape, without any points or sharp edges. ...a low rounded hill... ADJ 2. You describe something or someone as rounded or well-rounded when you are expressing approval of them because they have a personality which is fully developed in all aspects. ...his carefully organised narrative, full of rounded, believable and interesting characters. ADJ [approval]

Moby Thesaurus

Junoesque, abrupt, accented, alveolar, annular, annulate, annulose, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arched, arciform, articulated, assimilated, back, bagging, baggy, ballooning, barytone, bellied, bellying, bellylike, bent, bilabial, billowing, billowy, bloated, bluff, blunt, blunt-edged, blunt-ended, blunt-pointed, blunted, bluntish, bosomy, bowed, broad, built, bulbose, bulbous, bulging, bumped, bumpy, bunched, bunchy, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, circinate, circular, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, convex, coronary, crownlike, curvesome, curvilinear, curvy, cyclic, cycloid, dental, discoid, disklike, dissimilated, distended, dorsal, dull, dull-edged, dull-pointed, dulled, dullish, edgeless, faired, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hillocky, hummocky, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, moutonnee, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, obtuse, occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, pneumatic, pointless, posttonic, potbellied, pouching, retroflex, ring-shaped, ringlike, rotund, round, rounded out, semivowel, smoothed, soft, sonant, stacked, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, swelling, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unedged, unpointed, unrounded, unsharp, unsharpened, unstressed, velar, verrucated, verrucose, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, warty, weak, well-developed, wide