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