adj
Meaning 1
circumlocutional
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
circumlocutious
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Meaning 2
roundabout and unnecessarily wordy-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
Antonyms: none provided
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Etymology
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