HyperDic: circumlocutory

English > 1 sense of the word circumlocutory:
ADJECTIVEallcircumlocutory, circumlocutious, periphrastic, ambagiousroundabout and unnecessarily wordy
English > circumlocutory: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningroundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ('ambagious' is archaic).
Example"had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
Synonymscircumlocutious, periphrastic, ambagious
BroaderindirectExtended senses
Spanishperifrástico
Catalanperifràstic

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