round´ed|ness

round´ed|ness
round|ed «ROWN dihd», adjective.
1. round: »

rounded edges.

2. Phonetics. spoken by rounding the lips: »

a rounded vowel. The word “joke” has a rounded sound “o.” One can learn to produce the rounded front vowels by practising lip-positions before a mirror (Leonard Bloomfield).

3. expressed in round numbers, as in even tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on.
round´ed|ness, noun.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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