About The Word Circumlocution
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Circumlocution
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What's The Definition Of Circumlocution?
[n] an indirect way of expressing something
[n] a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things Synonyms | Synonyms for Circumlocution: indirect expression | periphrasis Related Terms | Find terms related to Circumlocution: ambages | anfractuosity | circling | circuition | circuitousness | circuitry | circularity | circulation | circumambages | circumambience | circumambiency | circumambulation | circumbendibus | circumflexion | circummigration | circumnavigation | circumvolution | convolution | crinkle | crinkling | deviance | deviancy | deviation | deviousness | digression | excursion | excursus | flexuosity | flexuousness | gyre | gyring | indirection | intorsion | involution | meander | meandering | obliqueness | orbit | orbiting | periphrase | periphrasis | pleonasm | redundancy | rivulation | roundabout | roundaboutness | rounding | sinuation | sinuosity | sinuousness | slinkiness | snakiness | spiral | spiraling | tautology | torsion | tortility | tortuosity | tortuousness | turn | turning | twisting | undulation | verbality | wave | waving | wheeling | winding See Also | equivocation | evasion | verboseness | verbosity Circumlocution In Webster's Dictionary \Cir`cum*lo*cu"tion\, n. [L. circumlocutio, fr.
circumloqui, -locutus, to make use of circumlocution; circum
+ loqui to speak. See {Loquacious}.]
The use of many words to express an idea that might be
expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a
periphrase.
the plain Billingsgate way of calling names . . . would
save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. --Swift.
{Circumlocution office}, a term of ridicule for a
governmental office where business is delayed by passing
through the hands of different officials.
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