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| type | s |
| lex_filenum | 00 |
| def | roundabout and unnecessarily wordy |
| def | (`ambagious' is archaic) |
| examples | 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 |
| Outgoing links | |
| Similar to | indirect |
| Derivationally related form | ambagious → ambage |
| Derivationally related form | periphrastic → periphrasis |
| Derivationally related form | circumlocutious → circumlocution; circumlocutious → circumlocution |
| Incoming links | |
| Similar to | indirect |
| Derivationally related form | circumlocution → circumlocutious; circumlocution → circumlocutious |
| Derivationally related form | ambage → ambagious |
| Derivationally related form | periphrasis → periphrastic |
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