| ADJECTIVE | all | circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy |
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| Meaning | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious' is archaic). | |
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| Example | "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression" | |
| Synonyms | circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious | |
| Broader | indirect | Extended senses |
| Spanish | perifrástico | |
| Catalan | perifràstic | |
| Nouns | circumlocution | a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things |
| circumlocution | an indirect way of expressing something | |
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