CIRCUMLOCUTORY
\sˈɜːkəmlˌɒkjuːtəɹˌi], \sˈɜːkəmlˌɒkjuːtəɹˌi], \s_ˈɜː_k_ə_m_l_ˌɒ_k_j_uː_t_ə_ɹ_ˌi]\
Definitions of CIRCUMLOCUTORY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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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