Usually means: Indirect or roundabout way; verbose.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. circumlocutory: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumlocutory: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumlocutory: Collins English Dictionary
  4. circumlocutory: Vocabulary.com
  5. circumlocutory: Wordnik
  6. circumlocutory: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. circumlocutory: Wiktionary
  8. Circumlocutory, circumlocutory: Dictionary.com
  9. Circumlocutory: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. circumlocutory: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. circumlocutory: Rhymezone
  12. Circumlocutory: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. circumlocutory: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. circumlocutory: FreeDictionary.org
  15. circumlocutory: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. circumlocutory: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumlocutory: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. circumlocutory: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumlocutory)

▸ adjective:  Characterised by circumlocution; overly wordy

Similar:
circumlocutious, ambagious, periphrastic, indirect, circumlocuitous, circumlocutive, circumlocutionary, circumambulatory, roundabout, circumforaneous, more...

Opposite:
concise, direct, straightforward, succinct, brief

Types:
verbose, windy, long-winded, prolix, circumlocutionary, more...

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Similar:
circumlocutious, ambagious, periphrastic, indirect, circumlocuitous, circumlocutive, circumlocutionary, circumambulatory, roundabout, circumforaneous, more...

Opposite:
concise, direct, straightforward, succinct, brief

Types:
verbose, windy, long-winded, prolix, circumlocutionary, more...



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