Circumlocutory [adjective]
Definition of Circumlocutory:
roundabout; unintended
Synonyms of Circumlocutory:
● Ambiguous
● Tortuous
● Oblique
● Incidental
● Implied
● Ancillary
● Circuitous
● Collateral
● Circular
● Complicated
● Contingent
● Crooked
● Devious
● Discursive
● Duplicitous
● Erratic
● Eventual
● Long
● Long-winded
● Meandering
● Obscure
● Out-of-the-way
● Rambling
● Secondary
● Serpentine
● Sinister
● Sinuous
● Sneaky
● Subsidiary
● Underhand
● Vagrant
● Wandering
● Winding
● Zigzag
● Long-drawn-out
● Periphrastic
● Sneaking
● Long way home
● Sidelong
● Snaking
● Twisting
Opposite/Antonyms of Circumlocutory:
● Straightforward
● Straight
● Direct
Sentence/Example of Circumlocutory:
To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
It will require perhaps a little circumlocutory exposition to show this, but here it is.
Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
Certainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges."
The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech.
Another lot sneered at this circumlocutory and unsatisfactory process of argument.
Herbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me.