Meaning of CIRCUMLOCUTIOUS
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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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CIRCUMLOCUTIOUS is a 15 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | ambagious, circumlocutory, indirect, periphrastic |
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