ROUND-BACKED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does round-backed mean? 

• ROUND-BACKED (adjective)
  The adjective ROUND-BACKED has 1 sense:

1. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

  Familiarity information: ROUND-BACKED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUND-BACKED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect

Synonyms:

crooked; hunched; round-backed; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping

Context example:

a little oldish misshapen stooping woman

Similar:

unerect (not upright in position or posture)

 Context examples 

I always liked McArdle, the crabbed, old, round-backed, red-headed news editor, and I rather hoped that he liked me.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)