round about

Speech parts

1. round about - Adverb

2. round about - Phrase

Meaning

In an opposite direction.

(emphatic) Round; around.

round about

At a point or time approximately equal to.

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Synonyms

approximately more or less just about or so something like ish

Examples

There is certainly some chill and arid knowledge to be found upon the summits of formal and laborious science; but it is all round about you, and for the trouble of looking, that you will acquire the warm and palpitating facts of life. Robert Louis Stevenson

Although I enter not, Yet round about the spot Ofttimes I hover And near the sacred gate With longing eyes I wait, Expectant of her. William Makepeace Thackeray

If we do not depart from God, and disunite by that departure, and fall into disunion among ourselves, I am confident, we doing our duty and waiting upon the Lord, we shall find He will be as a wall of brass round about us till we have finished that work which he has for us to do. Oliver Cromwell

Falsehood never tires of going round about. Danish Proverb

Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. German Proverb

Truth gives a short answer, lies go round about. (Strauss, 1994 p. 221) English Proverb

Words in the phrase

round about

Close letter words and terms

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