Definitions for: Circumlocutory


[adj] roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)



Webster (1913) Definition: Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry, a.
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.

The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory
order. --Chambers's
Journal.

Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, indirect, periphrastic

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