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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy;
- Example: "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"
- Example: "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);
[syn: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.] [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ambagious adj 1: 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) [syn: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]