Definition of Circumlocutory
Adjective
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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)
- circumlocutious periphrastic ambagious
Word games points for the Circumlocutory
- Scrabble® score of the circumlocutory (25)
- Word Chums® score of the circumlocutory (38)
- Words With Friends® score of the circumlocutory (31)
Unscramble circumlocutory
323 unscramble word found using the letters circumlocutory.
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