ADJECTIVE | all | ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy |
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Meaning | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious' is archaic). | |
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Synonyms | circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic | |
Broader | indirect | Extended senses |
Spanish | perifrástico | |
Catalan | perifràstic | |
Nouns | ambage | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
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