| Pronunciation: | | `surkum'lâkyu`towree
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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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CIRCUMLOCUTORY is a 14 letter word that starts with C. |
| | Synonyms: | | ambagious, circumlocutious, indirect, periphrastic |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a.
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.
The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory
order. --Chambers's
Journal.
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