'Circumlocutory' definitions:
Definition of 'circumlocutory'
(from WordNet)
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) [syn: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]
Definition of 'Circumlocutory'
From: GCIDE
- Circumlocutory \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone. [1913 Webster]
- The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. --Chambers's Journal. [1913 Webster]