roundabout way

1. 1.

   a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

   Synonymsdetour

   Broaderroad

Questions about roundabout way

What does roundabout way mean?

roundabout way means "a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)".

What is another word for roundabout way?

Close synonyms include detour. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is roundabout way a common word?

roundabout way is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.