Synonyms for all-round


Grammar : Adj
Spell : awl-round
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɔlˈraʊnd

Top 10 synonyms for all-round Other synonyms for the word all-round

Définition of all-round

Origin :
  • 1728, from all + round (adj.). All-rounder is from 1855 as a type of men's collar; 1875 as a person who is good at everything.
  • adj general
  • adj versatile
Example sentences :
  • He was the best example of an all-round invalid I ever stacked up against.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
  • But Rajendrahal Mitra was an all-round expert and was an academy in himself.
  • Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
  • "I am a bookkeeper, and an all-round office man," added the sick man.
  • Extract from : « From Farm to Fortune » by Horatio Alger Jr.
  • There has been an all-round decrease, corresponding to the decrease of the population.
  • Extract from : « Home Rule » by Harold Spender
  • Among other peoples, only Scandinavians ever had such an all-round lot as this.
  • Extract from : « All Afloat » by William Wood
  • The all-round work at the Institute continued as it had begun.
  • Extract from : « From Slave to College President » by Godfrey Holden Pike
  • IT is very difficult to give an all-round impression of aa man.
  • Extract from : « The Good Soldier » by Ford Madox Ford
  • The Chestertonian decadence was not even an all-round falling-off.
  • Extract from : « G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study » by Julius West
  • Let us also understand that real consecration is an 'all-round' thing.
  • Extract from : « Standards of Life and Service » by T. H. Howard
  • Putnam was an all-round zoologist, but his specialty was fishes.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 » by Various

Antonyms for all-round

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