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List of antonyms from "chymify" to antonyms from "circumlocutory"
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- Chymify (7 antonyms)
- Ciao (7 antonyms)
- Cicatrix (14 antonyms)
- Ciceronianism (5 antonyms)
- Cimmerian (30 antonyms)
- Cinched (145 antonyms)
- Cinchers (14 antonyms)
- Cinematize (3 antonyms)
- Cinerator (1 antonym)
- Cipher (4 antonyms)
- Circadian (12 antonyms)
- Circle (11 antonyms)
- Circuit (4 antonyms)
- Circuited (13 antonyms)
- Circulate (11 antonyms)
- Circulated (11 antonyms)
- Circulating (3 antonyms)
- Circulation (2 antonyms)
- Circulator (1 antonym)
- Circumduct (41 antonyms)
- Circumference (4 antonyms)
- Circumlocute (28 antonyms)
- Circumlocution (4 antonyms)
- Circumlocutory (18 antonyms)
Definition of the day : « circumlocutory »
- As in indirect : adj roundabout; unintended
- As in oblique : adj indirect, evasive
- As in roundabout : adj indirect
- As in verbose : adj wordy, long-winded
- As in diffuse : adj wordy
- Herbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me.
- Extract from : « Sight Unseen » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
- Extract from : « Ruth Hall » by Fanny Fern
- Allusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges."
- Extract from : « Sentimental Education, Volume II » by Gustave Flaubert
- Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
- Extract from : « The Caxtons, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech.
- Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. No. 23. » by Various
- Another lot sneered at this circumlocutory and unsatisfactory process of argument.
- Extract from : « Secret Service or Recollections of a City Detective » by Andrew Forrester
- He hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
- Extract from : « Human Nature In Politics » by Graham Wallas
- It is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
- Extract from : « Discourses of Keidansky » by Bernard G. Richards
- Certainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 402, April, 1849 » by Various
- Stammering becomes more eloquent than oratory, a child's impulsiveness wiser than circumlocutory experience.
- Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore