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English adjective: circumlocutory

1. circumlocutory roundabout and unnecessarily wordy


SamplesHad 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..


Synonymsambagious, circumlocutious, periphrastic


Similarindirect


Antonymsdirect









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