circumlocutory | ||
1. | [ adjective ] roundabout and unnecessarily wordy | |
Synonyms: | periphrastic ambagious circumlocutious | |
Examples: | "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression" "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion"-T.S.Eliot (`ambagious' is archaic) |
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Related terms: | indirect | |
Similar spelling: |
circumlocution circumlocutious circumspectly circumduction circumspection circumspect |