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We found 16 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word circumlocutory:
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General dictionaries General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumlocutory: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. circumlocutory: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. circumlocutory: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. circumlocutory: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. Circumlocutory, circumlocutory: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  6. Circumlocutory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  7. circumlocutory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  8. circumlocutory: Rhymezone [home, info]
  9. Circumlocutory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  10. circumlocutory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  11. circumlocutory: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  12. circumlocutory: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  13. circumlocutory: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  14. circumlocutory: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  15. circumlocutory: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumlocutory: Medical dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions (circumlocutory)

adjective:  roundabout and unnecessarily wordy ("Had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression")

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