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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]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

circumlocutious
    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]