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Adjective Synset: 300767626

Words: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic

Gloss: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "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; (`ambagious' is archaic)

similar to 300766457 - indirect
derivationally related 107090379 - ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis
derivationally related 107090379 - ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis
derivationally related 106761342 - circumlocution, indirect_expression
derivationally related 107090379 - ambage, circumlocution, periphrasis

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