About The Word Ambagious
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Ambagious
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What's The Definition Of Ambagious?
[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)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Ambagious: circumlocutious | circumlocutory | indirect | periphrastic Related Terms | Find terms related to Ambagious: See Also | Ambagious In Webster's Dictionary \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.]
Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
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