Word Meanings - CIRCUMLOCUTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution

Additional info about word: CIRCUMLOCUTION

The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials. (more info) locutus, to make use of circumlocution; circum + loqui to speak. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CIRCUMLOCUTION)

• anfractuosity
• Tortuousness
• ambiguousness
• angularity
• ambiguity
• circumlocution
• disjointedness

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMLOCUTION)

• ANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being angular; angularness.
• AMBIGUOUSNESS
  Ambiguity.
• CIRCUMLOCUTION
  The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution
• ANFRACTUOSITY
  A sinuous depression or sulcus like those separating the convolutions of the brain. (more info) 1. A state of being anfractuous, or full of windings and turnings; sinuosity. The anfractuosities of his intellect and temper. Macaulay.
• CIRCUMLOCUTIONAL
  Relating to, or consisting of, circumlocutions; periphrastic; circuitous.
• AMBIGUITY
  The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the
• RECTANGULARITY
  The quality or condition of being rectangular, or right-angled.
• TRIANGULARITY
  The quality or state of being triangular. Bolingbroke.
• UNAMBIGUITY
  Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.