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WELL-ROUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does well-rounded mean? 

WELL-ROUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective WELL-ROUNDED has 1 sense:

1. many-sidedplay

  Familiarity information: WELL-ROUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WELL-ROUNDED (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Many-sided

Synonyms:

all-around; all-round; well-rounded

Context example:

a well-rounded curriculum

Similar:

comprehensive (including all or everything)


 Context examples 


You are well-rounded, a blue-stocking fit to be the wife of a pirate chief.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the Yale News—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the well-rounded man.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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