Thesaurus / circumlocutory
FEEDBACKother words for circumlocutory
other words for circumlocutory
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- circuitous
- implied
- incidental
- oblique
- tortuous
- collateral
- circular
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
Meet Grammar Coach
Improve Your Writing 
antonyms of circumlocutory
MOST RELEVANT
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
How to use circumlocutory in a sentence
To come to the point, without any circumlocutory delay, I am a young man with aspirations far above my station in life.
RUTH HALLFANNY FERNIt will require perhaps a little circumlocutory exposition to show this, but here it is.
THE BOOK-HUNTERJOHN HILL BURTONCertainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
THE CAXTONS, COMPLETEEDWARD BULWER-LYTTONHe hears real discussion; he learns to pick men for higher work; and saves many hours of circumlocutory writing.
HUMAN NATURE IN POLITICSGRAHAM WALLASIt is only thus that we can become free—by a circumlocutory process of self-abnegation, self-sacrifice and self-annihilation.
DISCOURSES OF KEIDANSKYBERNARD G. RICHARDSCertainly I was born under the Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, VOLUME 65, NO. 402, APRIL, 1849VARIOUSAllusions were made to it in a circumlocutory style: "The place you know—a certain street—at the bottom of the Bridges."
SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, VOLUME IIGUSTAVE FLAUBERTThe practice thus forced upon one in employing a Chinese servant is useful in preventing a circumlocutory habit of speech.
LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, NO. 23, FEBRUARY, 1873, VOL. XI. NO. 23.VARIOUSAnother lot sneered at this circumlocutory and unsatisfactory process of argument.
SECRET SERVICE OR RECOLLECTIONS OF A CITY DETECTIVEANDREW FORRESTERHerbert has a circumlocutory manner over the phone which irritates me.
SIGHT UNSEENMARY ROBERTS RINEHARTSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 21, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO CIRCUMLOCUTORY
- ambiguous
- ancillary
- circuitous
- circular
- circumlocutory
- collateral
- complicated
- contingent
- crooked
- devious
- discursive
- duplicitous
- erratic
- eventual
- implied
- incidental
- long
- long way home
- long-drawn-out
- long-winded
- meandering
- oblique
- obscure
- out-of-the-way
- periphrastic
- rambling
- secondary
- serpentine
- sidelong
- sinister
- sinuous
- snaking
- sneaking
- sneaky
- subsidiary
- tortuous
- twisting
- underhand
- vagrant
- wandering
- winding
- zigzag
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.