HyperDic: circumlocutious

English > 1 sense of the word circumlocutious:
ADJECTIVEallcircumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagiousroundabout and unnecessarily wordy
English > circumlocutious: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningroundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious' is archaic).
Example"had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
Synonymscircumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
BroaderindirectExtended senses
Spanishperifrástico
Catalanperifràstic
Nounscircumlocutiona style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
circumlocutionan indirect way of expressing something

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