circumlocutory English

Meaning circumlocutory meaning

What does circumlocutory mean?

circumlocutory

— adjective (= circumlocutious, periphrastic, ambagious) roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; ; ; ('ambagious' is archaic) 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

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circumlocutory English » English

periphrastic

ambagious

verbose

roundabout

circumlocutious

prolix

indirect

circumlocutional