About The Word Circumlocutory
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Circumlocutory
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What's The Definition Of 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)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Circumlocutory: ambagious | circumlocutious | indirect | periphrastic Related Terms | Find terms related to Circumlocutory: See Also | Circumlocutory In Webster's Dictionary \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a.
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.
The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory
order. --Chambers's
Journal.
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