| Pronunciation: | | am'beyjus
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[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) |
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AMBAGIOUS is a 9 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | circumlocutious, circumlocutory, indirect, periphrastic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.]
Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]
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