Definition of Circumlocutory

Adjective

  • 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
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Word games points for the Circumlocutory

  • Scrabble® score of the circumlocutory (25)
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Unscramble circumlocutory

323 unscramble word found using the letters circumlocutory.
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