Word Meanings - CIRCUMLOCUTORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CIRCUMLOCUTORY)

• Ambagious
• Tortuous
• indirect
• anfractuous
• circumlocutory
• circuitous
• periphrastic
• ambiguous
• unintelligible
• pointless
• disjointed
• Prolix
• Diffuse
• lengthy
• tedious
• prosaic
• verbose
• minute
• toilsome
• wordy

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMLOCUTORY)

• CIRCUITOUS
  Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• CIRCUMLOCUTORY
  Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• DIFFUSED
  Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
• DISJOINTED
  Separated at the joints; disconnected; incoherent. -- Dis*joint"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis*joint"ed*ness, n.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• PERIPHRASTICALLY
  With circumlocution.
• DIFFUSER
  One who, or that which, diffuses.
• AMBIGUOUS
  Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous,
• AMBIGUOUSNESS
  Ambiguity.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• DIFFUSE
  To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
• DIFFUSENESS
  The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity; prolixity.
• DISJOINT
  Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.
• PROSAIC; PROSAICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to prose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. Cudworth. 2. Dull; uninteresting; commonplace; unimaginative; prosy; as, a prosaic person. Ed. Rev. --
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• PROLIXIOUS
  Dilatory; tedious; superfluous. "Lay by all nicety, and prolixious blushes." Shak.
• VERBOSE
  Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument. Too verbose in their way of speaking. Ayliffe. -- Ver*bose"ly, adv. --
• DIFFUSELY
  In a diffuse manner.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.