'Circuitous' definitions:
Definition of 'circuitous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend" [syn: circuitous, roundabout]
adjective
Deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic" [syn: devious, circuitous, roundabout]
Definition of 'Circuitous'
From: GCIDE
- Circuitous \Cir*cu"i*tous\, a. [LL. circuitosus.] Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end. -- {Cir*cu"i*tous*ly}, adv. -- {Cir*cu"i*tous*ness}, n.
- Syn: Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'circuitous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrant,
- aberrative,
- ambagious,
- anfractuous,
- backhand,
- backhanded,
- circular,
- circumlocutional,
- circumlocutory,
- collateral,
- convolutional,
- deflectional,
- departing,
- desultory,
- deviant,
- deviating,
- deviative,
- deviatory,
- devious,
- digressive,
- discursive,
- divagational,
- divergent,
- errant,
- erratic,
- excursive,
- flexuose,
- flexuous,
- helical,
- indirect,
- involute,
- involuted,
- involutional,
- labyrinthine,
- left-handed,
- mazy,
- meandering,
- meandrous,
- O-shaped,
- oblique,
- orbital,
- out-of-the-way,
- periphrastic,
- planetary,
- rambling,
- rivose,
- rivulose,
- rotary,
- round,
- roundabout,
- roving,
- ruffled,
- serpentine,
- shifting,
- side,
- sidelong,
- sinister,
- sinistral,
- sinuate,
- sinuose,
- sinuous,
- snaky,
- spiral,
- stray,
- swerving,
- torsional,
- tortile,
- tortuous,
- turning,
- twisting,
- twisty,
- undirected,
- vagrant,
- veering,
- wandering,
- whorled,
- winding,
- wreathlike,
- wreathy,
- zigzag
Words containing 'Circuitous'
- Circuit,
- Circuiteer,
- Circuiter,
- Circuition,
- Circuitously,
- Circuitousness,
- and circuit,
- or circuit,
- Circuit court,
- Circuit of action,
- Galvanic circuit,
- Local circuit,
- Phantom circuit,
- Secondary circuit,
- Short circuit,
- To make a circuit,
- Voltaic circuit,
- borscht circuit,
- borsht circuit,
- bridge circuit,
- circuit board,
- circuit breaker,
- circuit card,
- closed circuit,
- computer circuit,
- control circuit,
- electric circuit,
- electrical circuit,
- feedback circuit,
- integrated circuit,
- intendant of circuit,
- light circuit,
- lighting circuit,
- nand circuit,
- open circuit,
- parallel circuit,
- printed circuit,
- racing circuit,
- resonant circuit,
- series circuit,
- shunt circuit,
- squelch circuit,
- tank circuit,
- telephone circuit,
- xor circuit,
- Break-circuit,
- Short-circuit,
- Short-circuited,
- Short-circuiting,
- circuit court of appeals,
- closed-circuit,
- negative feedback circuit,
- pulse timing circuit,
- x-or circuit,
- closed-circuit television