Usually means: Slumped or curved shoulder posture.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word round-shouldered:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. round-shouldered: Merriam-Webster
  2. round-shouldered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. round-shouldered: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. round-shouldered, round-shouldered: Collins English Dictionary
  5. round-shouldered: Vocabulary.com
  6. round-shouldered: Wordnik
  7. round-shouldered: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. round-shouldered: Wiktionary
  9. round-shouldered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. round-shouldered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. round-shouldered: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. round-shouldered: Dictionary.com
  13. Round-shouldered: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. round-shouldered: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. round-shouldered: Rhymezone
  16. Round-shouldered: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. round-shouldered: FreeDictionary.org
  18. round-shouldered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. round-shouldered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. round-shouldered: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. round-shouldered: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. round-shouldered: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Having a rounded upper back, and shoulders that bend forward.

Similar:
stooping, crooked, unerect, hunched, round-backed, roundsided, shouldered, roundheaded, bow-faced, well-rounded, more...

Opposite:
erect, upright, straight-backed

Types:
hunched, slouched, stooped, crooked, lopsided, skewed, more...

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Similar:
stooping, crooked, unerect, hunched, round-backed, roundsided, shouldered, roundheaded, bow-faced, well-rounded, more...

Opposite:
erect, upright, straight-backed

Types:
hunched, slouched, stooped, crooked, lopsided, skewed, more...



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