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round·ly

 (round′lē)
adv.
1. In the form of a circle or sphere.
2. With full force or vigor; thoroughly: applauded roundly; was roundly criticized.
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roundly

(ˈraʊndlɪ)
adv
1. frankly, bluntly, or thoroughly: to be roundly criticized.
2. in a round manner or so as to be round
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round•ly

(ˈraʊnd li)

adv.
1. in a round manner.
2. vigorously or briskly.
3. outspokenly, severely, or unsparingly.
4. completely or fully.
5. in round numbers or in a vague or general way.
[1400–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.roundly - in a round manner; "she was roundly slim"
2.roundly - in a blunt direct manner; "he spoke bluntly"; "he stated his opinion flat-out"; "he was criticized roundly"
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roundly

adverb thoroughly, sharply, severely, bitterly, fiercely, bluntly, intensely, violently, vehemently, rigorously, outspokenly, frankly They have roundly condemned the shooting.
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Translations
بِوُضوح، بِوَقاحَه
hruběpřímo
grundigt
afdráttarlaust, ruddalega
kabacaşiddetle

roundly

[ˈraʊndlɪ] ADV [condemn, criticize] → duramente; [reject, deny] → categóricamente, rotundamente
he was roundly defeated in the electionsufrió una derrota aplastante en las elecciones
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roundly

[ˈraʊndli] adv [condemned, criticized, booed] → vertement; [defeated] → nettement
to be roundly criticized → être vertement critiqué(e)round-robin [ˌraʊndˈrɒbɪn] n (SPORT) (also round-robin tournament) → tournoi m toutes rondesround-shouldered [ˌraʊndˈʃəʊldərd] adjvoûté(e)round table round-table, roundtable [ˌraʊndˈteɪbəl] n (= conference) → table f ronderound-table discussion ntable f ronderound-the-clock [ˌraʊndðəˈklɒk] adj24 heures sur 24round trip nvoyage m aller et retourround trip ticket round-trip ticket nbillet m aller-retour
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roundly

adv condemn, criticizerundum; rejectrundweg, rundheraus; defeatklar, eindeutig
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roundly

[ˈraʊndlɪ] adv (say, tell) → chiaro e tondo; (condemn) → senza mezzi termini
I cursed him roundly → gliene ho dette di tutti i colori
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round

(raund) adjective
1. shaped like a circle or globe. a round hole; a round stone; This plate isn't quite round.
2. rather fat; plump. a round face.
adverb
1. in the opposite direction. He turned round.
2. in a circle. They all stood round and listened; A wheel goes round; All (the) year round.
3. from one person to another. They passed the letter round; The news went round.
4. from place to place. We drove round for a while.
5. in circumference. The tree measured two metres round.
6. to a particular place, usually a person's home. Are you coming round (to our house) tonight?
preposition
1. on all sides of. There was a wall round the garden; He looked round the room.
2. passing all sides of (and returning to the starting-place). They ran round the tree.
3. changing direction at. He came round the corner.
4. in or to all parts of. The news spread all round the town.
noun
1. a complete circuit. a round of drinks (= one for everyone present); a round of golf.
2. a regular journey one takes to do one's work. a postman's round.
3. a burst of cheering, shooting etc. They gave him a round of applause; The soldier fired several rounds.
4. a single bullet, shell etc. five hundred rounds of ammunition.
5. a stage in a competition etc. The winners of the first round will go through to the next.
6. a type of song sung by several singers singing the same tune starting in succession.
verb
to go round. The car rounded the corner.
ˈrounded adjective
curved; like part of the line forming a circle. a rounded arch.
ˈroundly adverb
plainly; rudely. He rebuked her roundly.
ˈroundness noun
rounds noun plural
a doctor's visits to his patients. The doctor is (out) on his rounds.
ˈall-round adjective
complete. It was an all-round success.
ˌall-ˈrounder noun
a person who has a talent for several different kinds of work, sport etc, or who can play in any position in a game.
ˈroundabout noun
1. a revolving machine on which one can ride for pleasure; a merry-go-round.
2. a circular piece of ground where several roads meet, and round which traffic must travel.
adjective
not direct. a roundabout route.
round figures/numbers
the nearest convenient or easily remembered numbers. Tell me the cost in round figures (ie $20 rather than $19.87).
ˌround-ˈshouldered adjective
with stooping shoulders.
round trip
1. (American) a journey to a place and back again (round-trip ticket a ticket for such a journey).
2. a trip to several places and back, taking a circular route.
all round
surrounding. There were people all round him.
round about
1. surrounding. She sat with her children round about her.
2. near. There are not many houses round about.
3. approximately. There must have been round about a thousand people there.
round off
1. to make something smooth etc. He rounded off the sharp corners with a file.
2. to complete successfully. He rounded off his career by becoming president.
round on
to turn to face (a person) suddenly, especially angrily.
round up to collect together: The farmer rounded up the sheep ( ˈround-up) noun
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References in classic literature ?
A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.
Consequently, I tell you roundly that I MUST borrow, and that I must continue to do so.
She shows a morbid distrust of writing her name at the bottom of any document which I present to her, and roundly declares she will sign nothing.
For eight-and-forty hours let me charter your ship --I will gladly pay for it, and roundly pay for it --if there be no other way --for eight-and-forty hours only --only that --you must, oh, you must, and you shall do this thing.
It does not look reasonable, but it is roundly asserted and maintained, nevertheless; I am sure of one thing--scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too.
Or of how I roundly swore it That there's none so fair as thou; True it is, but as I said it, By the girls I'm hated now.
I had thought to see a tall, meagre, yellow, conventual image in black, with a close white cap, bandaged under the chin like a nun's head-gear; whereas, there stood by me a little and roundly formed woman, who might indeed be older than I, but was still young; she could not, I thought, be more than six or seven and twenty; she was as fair as a fair Englishwoman; she had no cap; her hair was nut-brown, and she wore it in curls; pretty her features were not, nor very soft, nor very regular, but neither were they in any degree plain, and I already saw cause to deem them expressive.
His decent reticence is branded as hypocrisy, his circumlocutions are roundly called lies, and his silence is vilified as treachery.
When he prophesied to his old cronies, in the Moosehorn Saloon, that within five years town lots in Dawson could not be given away, while the cabins would be chopped up for firewood, he was laughed at roundly, and assured that the mother-lode would be found ere that time.
Alexey Alexandrovitch sternly cut her short, roundly declaring his wife to be above suspicion, and from that time began to avoid Countess Lidia Ivanovna.
Two of the outlaws, taking up their quarter-staves, and desiring Gurth to follow close in the rear, walked roundly forward along a by-path, which traversed the thicket and the broken ground adjacent to it.
Silver was roundly accused of playing double--of trying to make a separate peace for himself, of sacrificing the interests of his accomplices and victims, and, in one word, of the identical, exact thing that he was doing.