Found 2 items, similar to Circumlocutory.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: circumlocutory circumlocutory adj : 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, periphrastic, ambagious]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Circumlocutory 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]