Rounded and Practical

verb

• Wind around; move along a circular course.
  • usage: "round the bend"
  • synonyms: round
• Make round.
  • usage: "round the edges"
  • synonyms: round, round out, round off
• Pronounce with rounded lips.
  • synonyms: round, labialize, labialise
• Attack in speech or writing.
  • usage: "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker"
  • synonyms: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault
• Bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state.
  • usage: "polish your social manners"
  • synonyms: polish, round, round off, polish up, brush up
• Express as a round number.
  • usage: "round off the amount"
  • synonyms: round off, round down, round out, round
• Become round, plump, or shapely.
  • usage: "The young woman is fleshing out"
  • synonyms: round, flesh out, fill out

adjective

• Curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged.
  • usage: "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"

adjective

• Concerned with actual use or practice.
  • usage: "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art"
• Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory.
  • usage: "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
  • synonyms: hardheaded, hard-nosed, pragmatic
• Being actually such in almost every respect.
  • usage: "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
  • synonyms: virtual
• Having or put to a practical purpose or use.
  • usage: "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"

• (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
• (a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
• (a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.