About The Word Circuitous
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Circuitous
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What's The Definition Of Circuitous?
[adj] deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
[adj] marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" Synonyms | Synonyms for Circuitous: devious | indirect | roundabout Related Terms | Find terms related to Circuitous: aberrant | aberrative | ambagious | anfractuous | backhand | backhanded | circular | circumlocutional | circumlocutory | collateral | convolutional | deflectional | departing | desultory | deviant | deviating | deviative | deviatory | devious | digressive | discursive | divagational | divergent | errant | erratic | excursive | flexuose | flexuous | helical | indirect | involute | involuted | involutional | labyrinthine | left-handed | mazy | meandering | meandrous | oblique | orbital | O-shaped | out-of-the-way | periphrastic | planetary | rambling | rivose | rivulose | rotary | round | roundabout | roving | ruffled | serpentine | shifting | side | sidelong | sinister | sinistral | sinuate | sinuose | sinuous | snaky | spiral | stray | swerving | torsional | tortile | tortuous | turning | twisting | twisty | undirected | vagrant | veering | wandering | whorled | winding | wreathlike | wreathy | zigzag See Also | Circuitous In Webster's Dictionary \Cir*cu"i*tous\, a. [LL. circuitosus.]
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a
circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
-- {Cir*cu"i*tous*ly}, adv. -- {Cir*cu"i*tous*ness}, n.
Syn: Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
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