roundish
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]roundish (comparative more roundish, superlative most roundish)
- Somewhat round.
- 1820, John Lindley, Rosarum Monographia; Or, A Botanical History of Roses, page 42:
- Leaflets 9-11, roundish, of a firm texture, the lowest pair smaller than the rest, glaucous.
- 2012 March, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
- A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place.