rounded

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹaʊndɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndɪd
• Hyphenation: round‧ed

rounded

1. simple past and past participle of round

rounded (comparative more rounded, superlative most rounded)

1. Made into a circle or sphere.
2. Complete or balanced.
   • 1980 April 5, Aaron Cohen, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, in Gay Community News, page 12:

     Her character is much less rounded in the writing, since she has but one goal to fulfill in all of her scenes.

3. (mathematics) Describing a number that has been changed to its nearest desired value.
4. (botany) Ending in a broad arch.
5. (linguistics, of a vowel etc.) Pronounced with the lips drawn together.

   Antonym: unrounded

   The sound /u/ is a rounded vowel.

• redound, underdo