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CIRCUMLOCUTORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does circumlocutory mean?
• CIRCUMLOCUTORY (adjective)
The adjective CIRCUMLOCUTORY has 1 sense:
1. roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
Familiarity information: CIRCUMLOCUTORY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy
Synonyms:
ambagious; circumlocutious; circumlocutory; periphrastic
Context example:
A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.
Similar:
indirect (extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action)
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