Synonyms for circumlocutory
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sur-kuhm-loh-kyoo-shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌsɜr kəm loʊˈkyu ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for circumlocutory Other synonyms for the word circumlocutory
- bombastic
- circular
- circumlocutory
- complicated
- contingent
- copious
- crooked
- deviating
- devious
- diffuse
- diffusive
- digressive
- discursive
- dull
- duplicitous
- erratic
- evasive
- eventual
- exuberant
- flowery
- full of air
- fustian
- gabby
- garrulous
- grandiloquent
- involved
- lavish
- lengthy
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- loose
- loquacious
- magniloquent
- meandering
- obliquitous
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- palaverous
- periphrastic
- pleonastic
- profuse
- prolix
- rambling
- random
- redundant
- repeating
- repetitious
- repetitive
- rhetorical
- roundabout
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- taking the long way
- talkative
- talky
- tautological
- tautologous
- tedious
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- verbose
- waffling
- wandering
- winding
- windy
- yacking
- zigzag
Définition of circumlocutory
Origin :- c.1400, from Latin circumlocutionem (nominative circumlocutio) "a speaking around" (the topic), from circum- "around" (see circum-) + locutionem (nominative locutio) "a speaking," noun of action from past participle stem of loqui "to speak" (see locution). A loan-translation of Greek periphrasis (see periphrasis).
- 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
Antonyms for circumlocutory
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