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[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]